Odd Lots
Bloomberg
Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway interviewing experts on global markets and economic trends.
Why we picked this
We picked Odd Lots for the way hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway treat markets as physical systems rather than abstractions. The show trades financial jargon for concrete supply chains: how teapot refineries set fuel prices across Asia, what a $20,000 drone does to a cloud data center, and why token speed determines AI chip economics. Where other finance podcasts chase ticker movements, Odd Lots tracks the commodities, infrastructure, and logistics that actually move prices. The result is a feed that makes the mechanics of the global economy legible.
Recent episodes
The Rise of Organized Retail Crime at Big Box Stores
Sep 10, 202652 min
Why Money Launderers Love $100 Bills
Sep 7, 202654 min
Why Laser Beams Are the Hottest New Tech in Defense
Sep 4, 202653 min
What's Behind the Big Surge in US Government Bond Yields
Sep 3, 202636 min
Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed
Sep 1, 202659 min
Richmond Fed’s Tom Barkin on the Surprisingly Resilient Real Economy
Aug 31, 202631 min
Austan Goolsbee Is Worried the Economy Is Overheating
Aug 28, 202646 min
Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid on the First Jackson Hole of the Warsh Era
Aug 27, 202628 min
The Nigerian Industrial Behemoth That Could Reshape the African Economy
Aug 24, 202658 min
Jasmine Sun on What the AI Industry Got Wrong About the Public Backlash
Aug 21, 202651 min
Nick Bostrom on What Happens if AI Solves All of Our Problems
Aug 20, 202655 min
What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Really Tells Us About AI Danger
Aug 17, 202659 min
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