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China
Inflation
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Iran
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Venezuela
Supply Chain
United States
Interest Rates
Economic Policy
Internet
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Goldman Sachs
Oil Industry
Oil Market

Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets and economics. Join the conversation every Monday, Thursday, and Friday

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Fuel is a huge expense for airlines, and even on a good day, jet fuel prices are pretty volatile. Throw in two major wars now effecting energy infrastructure, and fuel prices across the board are higher and higher. Airlines have long tried to manage ... more

The market is acting in ways that make it very hard to get a handle on what exactly is going on right now. The overall indices are surging, while many individual stocks are doing badly. Rates are rising, but the economy is still robust. There's capex... more

Bill McBride did not just predict the 2008 housing bubble, he helped invent financial blogging with his Calculated Risk newsletter. Zach Lasry, meanwhile, is much newer to the scene, but in his career as a real estate developer, he is already respons... more

Is Hollywood just screwed? Writers are earning less. There are fewer shoots taking place in Los Angeles. And people are freaked out about AI. But according to Hayes Davenport, things were starting to feel bad in Hollywood before chatbots showed up to... more

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Hayes Davenport
Writer for Eastbound and Down and Family Guy; creative director of LA Material; co-host of Hollywood Handbook
LA Material; Hollywood Handbook
Episode: Hollywood Was Cooked Before AI, and Now It's Only Getting Worse
Rachel Karten
Social media consultant; author of Link in Bio
Self-employed
Episode: AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally
Taylor Lorenz
Founder of User Mag; social media journalist
User Mag
Episode: AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally
Chris Power
Founder of Hadrian
Hadrian
Episode: How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech Hub
Tom Mueller
Founder of Impulse Space
Impulse Space
Episode: How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech Hub
Gene Sykes
Co-head of Global M&A at Goldman Sachs; former head of the bid Committee for Los Angeles 2024/2028; chair of US Olympic & Paralympic Committee
Goldman Sachs; USOPC
Episode: A Goldman M&A Banker Helped Bring the Olympics to Los Angeles
Eric Zwick
Professor of Economics and Finance
Chicago Booth (University of Chicago)
Episode: There's a Mind-Boggling Number of Rich People in America
Owen Zidar
Professor of Economics
Princeton University
Episode: There's a Mind-Boggling Number of Rich People in America
Francis Fukuyama
Professor at Stanford, author of The End of History and In the Realm of the Last Man
Stanford University
Episode: What Francis Fukuyama Is Seeing at 'The End of History'

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Joe Weisenthal
Host of the show and Bloomberg journalist
Tracy Alloway
Co-host of Odd Lots, Bloomberg journalist

Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 5.4k ratings
  • Etc, etc, etc

    Joe, please stop saying etc. after every potential list, it is mind numbingly unnecessary every single episode.

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    eeekkk011
    United States16 days ago
  • Good info but lots of vocal tics

    OMG. The vocal tics. CAN THE HOSTS STOP IT WITH ALL THE “LIKES?” The biggest strength of this program is the guests along with some vital topics. The biggest weakness is the hosts. Both use “like” repeatedly as if they are valley girls. Joe is especially weak as a voice—lots of vocal fry and a “like” an average of one per sentence. It’s a level of cringe one has to get through to hear the guests.

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    Western Webspinner
    United States16 days ago
  • Great guest and topics, but...

    The amount of times the host will interrupt a guest in the middle of a detailed thought or an answer to a question, with a long story of their own is bizarre.

    These quirky host side stories add nothing to the interview, and indeed only serve to often audibly frustrate the guest themselves as well as many other listeners.

    Please stop, it would greatly improve the show.

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    3
    3.14perSlice
    United States16 days ago
  • So Dumb

    Joe is living proof that a seriously low IQ person can succeed with a major media company.

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    2
    Juanhuknows
    United Statesa month ago
  • Stop talking over your guests

    Joe keeps talking over their guests, “Yeah”….”Oh, yeah” mid-sentence, over and over again WHILE the guest is in the middle of a complicated technical explanation. Makes it impossible to actually follow the guest’s train of thought. Stop it, Joe. Just stop.

    Joe’s 2-week obsession now is calling AI machine intelligence, as if “artificial” might be an insult to the artifice that is AI. Not a hill I’d die on. When are people going to understand that something that isn’t sentient (i.e. not corp... more

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    Refined Taster
    United Statesa month ago

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Hollywood Was Cooked Before AI, and Now It's Only Getting Worse
Q: Is Hollywood just screwed at the moment given the declines in shoot days, the streaming shift, and the AI threat?
The guest explains that while the industry has faced a tough period, there are structural shifts like streaming adoption and tax considerations, and the real tension is how studios manage costs, labor, and new tech without sacrificing key talent. He also notes adaptive strategies like moving toward horror and smaller writer rooms, which are changes the industry is actively navigating.
What Francis Fukuyama Is Seeing at 'The End of History'
Q: Why did you emphasize AI in the Last Man framework as agentic AI?
The concern is not just automation but the loss of human control when AI agents act with goals not fully understandable by humans, leading to potential doomer scenarios and political consequences.
What Francis Fukuyama Is Seeing at 'The End of History'
Q: What do you attribute the misinterpretation of the end of history to?
People used the phrase as a shorthand for globalization and a settled liberal order, but Fukuyama clarifies that the end of history refers to a final form of governance (bourgeois democracy and market capitalism) rather than a guaranteed, universal end of all change.
Why Money Launderers Love $100 Bills
Q: How is money moved out of China, and what role do cash and goods play?
Bullough explains a demand-supply dynamic where wealthy individuals outside China seek cash, and cartels provide it by moving value through goods and services (like luxury goods or manufactured items), forming a cross-border ecosystem that underpins large-scale laundering.
Why Money Launderers Love $100 Bills
Q: Talk to us about the scale of money laundering.
Oliver notes that no one fully knows the true scale due to noncompliant tax reporting by criminals, but the commonly cited range is 2-5% of global GDP, implying trillions laundered annually.

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What is Odd Lots about and what kind of topics does it cover?

- A sharp, economics- and finance-focused discussion show that frequently features senior executives, policy experts, and researchers to unpack macro trends, markets, and the political economy behind them. Episodes mix deep-dive interviews with practical implications for investing, policy, and business strategy, often tying tech, regulation, and globalization to market dynamics. A recurring strength is high-caliber guest breadth and timely topics, though pacing and host dynamics are occasionally noted as areas for improvement by some listeners.

- Noteworthy angles include AI and digital transformation in media, macro policy and currency dynamics, franchise and labor economics, and the intersection of technology with finance and regulation, ... more

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