28: Finance's Hot New Thing Ended Up In An Old-School Scandal
Peer-to-peer lending was supposed to disrupt the traditional way people borrowed money. Instead of going to some giant, soulless institution, online platforms offered a way for people to post what the...
13 Maj 201625min
27: Kentucky Derby Edition: Flip This Horse
If you're like most people, you only bet on horses once a year, the day of the Kentucky Derby. You might try to cram a little beforehand, bone up about the favorites, and then place an ignorant losing...
4 Maj 201630min
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
