What Looking Inside a Bank Archive Can Tell Us About Modern Finance
Royal Bank of Scotland has been around, in one form or another, for hundreds of years. The company keeps artifacts from its lengthy history in an archive that features everything from a customer ledge...
21 Aug 201724min
The Biggest Lesson Investors Should Have Learned From the Crisis
It's been 10 years since the start of the credit crunch that eventually led to the global financial crisis. For many investors, the events of 2007 to 2008 shook their entire understanding of how marke...
14 Aug 201737min
What Diner's Club Card Reveals About the Nature Of Money
We use money everyday, but it's rare to actually think about what money is or what it represents. And in fact many of the people who are the closest to it -- academics, traders, etc. -- understand it ...
7 Aug 201731min
How The Bond Market Changed During A Veteran Trader's Decades On Wall Street
Most people have some kind of hazy conception of how the stock market works. Stocks are simple to understand, and there are only so many of them out there to trade. But the bond market is a whole diff...
31 Jul 201723min
What It's Like to Suddenly Become a Bond Manager in the Credit Crisis
We talk a lot on Odd Lots about the idea of investing. But what's it like to actually have to put money to work in some of the trickiest investing environments in history? David Schawel was an equity ...
24 Jul 201720min
Why Wheat is the World's Most Exciting Market Right Now
Financial markets around the world are stuck in a long period of low volatility and boredom. But one pocket is seeing some wild action -- grains. Spring wheat (a form of high-protein wheat grown in th...
17 Jul 201730min
How A Former Wall Street Trader Cracked The World Of Betting On Baseball
It's no secret that a lot of people in finance like to bet on things. But how many of them take the time to actually beat the house in gambling? On this week's Odd Lots, we talk to Joe Peta, a former ...
10 Jul 201727min
Why a Natural Gas Company Is Shaking the World of Islamic Finance
Earlier this month, Dana Gas, a UAE-based company, rocked the world of Islamic finance by announcing that one of its Shariah-compliant bonds was, well, no longer Shariah-compliant. On this week's epis...
3 Jul 201724min
