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China
Inflation
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Data Centers
Tariffs
Iran
Prediction Markets
Venezuela
Labor Market
United States
Supply Chain
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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Recent Guests

Nate Soares
Co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies; President of MIRI
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
Episode: Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All
Justin Solomon
Associate Dean of Engineering Education at MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Episode: How AI Is Upending the World of Mathematics
Dominik Leusder
Economist policy analyst, former researcher at LSE, author of The Leusder of Last Resort
New Left Eviews / Substack The Leusder of Last Resort
Episode: What Everyone Gets Wrong About the Economic Problems in Europe
Carolin Pflueger
Associate Professor at University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and Visiting Scholar at the Chicago Fed
University of Chicago; Chicago Fed
Episode: Why Treasuries Are 'Risky' Again
David Kang
Former Group Treasurer, Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways
Episode: How Airlines Actually Hedge Higher Fuel Prices
Luke Kawa
Head of markets at Sherwood News
Sherwood News
Episode: Everything in Markets Is Now Moving Incredibly Fast
Bill McBride
Author of Calculated Risk, real estate analyst
Calculated Risk
Episode: Why Building a Crosswalk in LA Is Kafkaesque
Zach Lasry
Real estate developer, founder of the Western Company
Western Company
Episode: Why Building a Crosswalk in LA Is Kafkaesque
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

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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 Statesa month 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 Statesa month 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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    3.14perSlice
    United Statesa month ago
  • So Dumb

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

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    Juanhuknows
    United States2 months 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 States2 months ago

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How AI Is Upending the World of Mathematics
Q: Why is understanding the proof important for practitioners who might apply AI-derived math in real-world contexts?
Understanding proves the reliability and applicability of results in real-world engineering and modeling tasks, where trusting the underlying math is critical for safety and correctness.
How AI Is Upending the World of Mathematics
Q: What is the role of AI in proof generation versus proof checking in mathematics today?
AI currently performs a mix of generation and checking, but relies on an external proof checker (e.g., Lean) to verify correctness, ensuring trust in AI-generated proofs.
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.

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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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4. Carolin Pflueger
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