Why the Pentagon Fails Audits Year After Year After Year
Odd Lots19 Apr 2025

Why the Pentagon Fails Audits Year After Year After Year

Last year, it was announced that the US Department of Defense had failed an audit for its seventh straight year, indicating an ongoing inability to track its hundreds of billions of dollars in spending and inventories. Why does this keep happening? Why does the Pentagon get audited in the first place? And what can be done to fix it? On this episode, we speak with Julia Gledhill, a research analyst at the National Security Reform Program at the Stimson Center. She explains how the budgetary process works, as well as the prospects for the Pentagon ever actually passing an audit.

Read more:
Pentagon Still Falls Short on Jump-Starting Innovation, Audit Says
Billionaire Feinberg Says Pentagon Needs an Investor’s Savvy

Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox each week, plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Avsnitt(1190)

Episode 5: 6,000 Years of Interest Rates

Episode 5: 6,000 Years of Interest Rates

(Bloomberg) -- What better way to prepare for what may be the first U.S. rate hike in almost a decade than to tour 6,000 years of interest-rate history? This week, Joe and Tracy speak with NYU Stern f...

7 Dec 201522min

Episode 4: Can a Hedge Funder Cut Prescription Drug Costs?

Episode 4: Can a Hedge Funder Cut Prescription Drug Costs?

(Bloomberg) -- Hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass has a plan that could cut the high cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. -- and make himself a lot of money. The strategy: Take short positions in a number...

30 Nov 201519min

Episode 3: The Strange Story Behind the Beanie Babies Bubble

Episode 3: The Strange Story Behind the Beanie Babies Bubble

(Bloomberg) -- Two market bubbles stand out from the late 1990s. Technology stocks that were supposed to make everyone a zillionaire. The other: A series of mass-produced stuffed animals priced at $5 ...

23 Nov 201522min

Episode 2: Under the Hood of the $8 Trln Corporate Bond Market

Episode 2: Under the Hood of the $8 Trln Corporate Bond Market

(Bloomberg) -- It's definitely big and it might be broken. It's the bond market! The corporate bond market, that is. In the second episode of Odd Lots, hosts Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal talk corp...

16 Nov 201520min

Episode 1: Tom Keene on Mathiness and His Favorite Guitar

Episode 1: Tom Keene on Mathiness and His Favorite Guitar

(Bloomberg) -- Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal kick off the Odd Lots podcast by interviewing the legendary television and radio host Tom Keene. On Tom’s mind this week: Fat tail risks, mathiness on W...

6 Nov 201522min

The Odd Lots Preview

The Odd Lots Preview

(Bloomberg) -- Welcome to Episode Zero of the Odd Lots podcast! Every week, hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway take you on a not-so random weekly walk through hot topics in markets, finance and ec...

4 Nov 20153min

Populärt inom Business & ekonomi

framgangspodden
badfluence
varvet
rss-jossan-nina
svd-tech-brief
rss-svart-marknad
rss-borsens-finest
uppgang-och-fall
avanzapodden
bathina-en-podcast
lastbilspodden
rss-dagen-med-di
fill-or-kill
24fragor
rss-inga-dumma-fragor-om-pengar
rss-kort-lang-analyspodden-fran-di
borsmorgon
tabberaset
rikatillsammans-om-privatekonomi-rikedom-i-livet
montrosepodden