Why The Transition To Clean Energy Is Happening A Lot Faster Than People Realize
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, there was a lot of talk about the need to change the world's energy usage in order to address climate change. While it's easy to get cynical about business...
24 Jan 202040min
How An Exotic Investment Product Sold In Korea Could Create Havoc In The U.S. Options Market
What's the connection between low global interest rates, Korean retail investors, and the U.S. options market? On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we discuss the fascinating world of Korean structured no...
20 Jan 202051min
What It's Like To Be An Investor In Iran's Market Right Now
Iran's stock market is one of the most unfamiliar equity markets in the world. With Iran under stringent U.S. sanctions, it's hard to even find data on where Iranian stocks are trading. Then there's g...
13 Jan 202035min
Introducing Prognosis Season 4: America's Broken Health-Care Costs
Americans are paying more and getting less for their health care than ever before. On the new season of Prognosis, reporter John Tozzi explores what went wrong. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
9 Jan 20201min
Why So Many Emerging Markets Are Blowing Up Right Now
From Argentina to Chile to Lebanon, we're seeing a high degree of political and economic uncertainty among emerging market economies. On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we speak with Paul McNamara, a ve...
6 Jan 202032min
Why It's A Big Problem That Economists Still Don't Understand Money
The severity of the Great Financial Crisis took economists by surprise, particularly the ones who believed that markets were largely stable and self-regulating. So why did so many eminent thinkers get...
30 Dec 201941min
A Human Rights Activist Explains Why Bitcoin Is So Important to His Work
When people think about Bitcoin, they often think about neo-goldbugs who hate inflation and the Federal Reserve. But beyond the financial case for it, there's a moral, human rights case as well. On th...
23 Dec 201942min
How Online Dating Is Reshaping the Entire Economy
By this point, everybody knows that online dating is a massive phenomenon, reshaping the social habits of the young and the single. But perhaps people are still not appreciating the significance of it...
16 Dec 201948min
