26: How To Make Money By Betting On The U.K.’s Big Referendum
In less than two months, the U.K. will vote on whether to leave the EU in the so-called Brexit referendum. The stakes are potentially massive for the economies of the U.K. and Europe, for the London f...
2 Maj 201622min
25: Americans Are Miserable, and It's Swaying The Election
How can you tell whether people in any given country are happy or not? That's the topic we wrestle with on the latest edition of the Odd Lots podcast. First we talk to Peter Atwater of the firm Financ...
25 Apr 201627min
24: Meet The Most Important Country Singer in Economics
Country music lost a legend when Merle Haggard passed away earlier this month at the age of 78. At first glance, there doesn't seem to be much connection between Haggard's music and markets (excluding...
15 Apr 201622min
23: Iceland Jailed Its Bad Bankers But People Are Still Angry
Iceland is known for geothermal beauty, fishing and as the birthplace of Bjork. It also made international headlines in 2008 thanks to a banking crisis that tipped the country into recession and rever...
8 Apr 201629min
22: The Unbearable Brightness of Being a Shadow Bank
A high-flying hedge fund manager lost everything back in 2007 after an accounting scandal prompted investors to pull money from his $12 billion fund. Almost a decade later, Dan Zwirn has been cleared ...
4 Apr 201627min
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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 201622min
