How One Trader Won Big While Everyone Else Panicked on Black Monday
On Monday October 19th, 1987, the Dow Jones fell 508 points in a one day crash that will forever be known as "Black Monday". In honor of the 30th anniversary, Joe and Tracy talk to Blair Hull, managin...
16 Okt 201729min
What We Can Learn About Market Liquidity By Looking At Everyday Life
"Liquidity" is one of the most widely-talked about yet least understood concepts in markets. Roughly speaking, a market is liquid if you can transact in it without affecting the price significantly. B...
9 Okt 201732min
Inside the Changing World of the Sell-Side Analyst
The world of sell-side analysts has been upended in recent years with intense competition, new technology and regulation in the form of MIFID. At the same time, many of the issues being faced by the a...
2 Okt 201736min
Revisiting The Strange Story Behind the Beanie Babies Bubble
To wrap up our series on financial bubbles, the Odd Lots podcast looks back at an early episode, focusing on one of the most iconic bubbles of the 20th century: Beanie Babies.Two market bubbles stand ...
25 Sep 201729min
The Baseball Card Bubble Can Tell You A Surprising Amount About How Markets Work
There's a good chance that if you were a boy in the early 90s that you were a collector of baseball cards. For a few years, the baseball card industry went from being a niche collectible to a massive ...
18 Sep 201735min
How an Austrian Economist Explains The Tulip Bubble
The tulip bubble is the quintessential bubble. If you want to call something a bubble, just mutter something about tulips, and everybody will know what you're arguing. But what was the tulip bubble, r...
11 Sep 201731min
This Is What Happened During The Great Florida Real Estate Bubble
During the 2008 financial crisis, Florida was an epicenter of the real estate meltdown. But for decades before that, the state has been characterized by booms and busts. In this week's episode of the ...
4 Sep 201727min
This Is What All Great Stock Market Bubbles And Crashes Have in Common
Markets are at their most exciting when they're in a bubble. Spectacular fortunes can be made and lost in the blink of an eye. So how do bubbles form and end? On this week's episode of the Odd Lots po...
28 Aug 201728min
