21: The Fraught Life of a Dumpster-Diving U.S. Short-Seller
Short-selling, the practice of betting against stocks by agreeing to sell equities that you don't own, has been in the headlines recently. The share price of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc....
28 Mar 201625min
20: The Time NYSE Floor Traders Tried to Prank President Reagan
For years, the image of a stock market trader was synonymous with images of Testosterone-fueled traders wheeling and dealing on the floor of big exchanges. But change has swept stock markets in recent...
21 Mar 201626min
Episode 19: Pow! Pow! El-Erian Talks Central Bank Ammunition
Asset purchases! Currency devaluations! Low interest rates! Negative interest rates! And... more? The world's central banks have unleashed a torrent of unconventional monetary policy since the 2008 fi...
14 Mar 201622min
Episode 18: The Obscure Report That Spawned the ETF Industry
In 1987, investors watched in horror as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 22 percent in an event that became known as "Black Monday." Months later, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission p...
7 Mar 201628min
Episode 17: How One Analyst Uncovered a $7 Billion Fraud
In late 2008, as markets tanked thanks the the global financial crisis, two massive Ponzi schemes unraveled. One was the $17.5 billion fraud engineered by Bernie Madoff. The other was the smaller but ...
29 Feb 201625min
Episode 16: Making Money When Everyone Else is Losing Theirs
Everybody knows by now that a handful of hedge funders made a fortune by betting against housing before the market crashed back in 2008. But, people who bought at the bottom, when everyone else was pa...
22 Feb 201622min
How a Rural Irish Farmer Became an Expert on the Euro Crisis
In theory, anyone with an internet connection can became an expert on just about anything from just about anywhere. In the latest edition of Odd Lots, we speak with Lorcan Roche Kelly, a cattle farmer...
16 Feb 201629min
Episode 14: The World’s Only Stand-Up Economist
On today’s episode, we’re taking the “dismal” out of the dismal science by interviewing Yoram Bauman, who bills himself as the world’s only stand-up economist. Join us for a Laffer curve-a-minute romp...
8 Feb 201624min
