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Odd Lots — 48 episodes

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1

Lev Menand and Nathan Tankus on Why Fed Independence Is Now Hanging by a Thread

2

Why Soccer Analytics Works Like Volatility Arbitrage Trading

3

NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium

4

Why AI Might Actually Create More Work for Lawyers

5

The Korean Levered ETFs Shaking Markets All Around the World

6

One of the World's Largest Hedge Funds on Its 86x Growth in Token Spending

7

These Are the Sharps Actually Making Money on Prediction Markets

8

How a Major Grocery Store Chain Can Dramatically Lower the Cost of Food

9

What Dan Wang Saw on His Last Trip to China

10

Baidu's CFO on How It Became a Full-Stack AI Player

11

How Lenovo's CFO Is Allocating Capital During One of History's Biggest Booms

12

Rory Johnston on Why His $200 Oil Prediction Didn't Turn Out Right

13

How the 1994 World Cup Transformed the Business of Football Forever

14

Grace Shao on What the World Should Know About Chinese AI

15

How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era

16

Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier

17

Jeremy Grantham on How to Tell If a Bubble Is About to Burst

18

The Iran War’s Lasting Scars Across Asia

19

Carmen Li's Plan to Build a Futures Market for Compute

20

Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute

21

How a Vibecoded Newsletter Is Making the Hay Market More Transparent

22

Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades

23

How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

24

Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

25

Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

26

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon on Running a Bank in the Age of AI

27

The Hidden Plumbing of Commodity Finance

28

How the Invention of Rope Gave Us Modern Civilization

29

Gita Gopinath on Why Interest Rates Have Surged All Around the World

30

Brendan Greeley on the Real 500-Year History of the Dollar

31

What It Takes to Run One of London's Most Popular Pubs

32

Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

33

'The Assassin' Fahmi Quadir on How to Survive as a Short-Seller

34

Why Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman Built The World's Largest Computer Chip

35

Deutsche Bank's Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal on Understanding the Macro Risks

36

Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense

37

Stripe's John Collison on How Agentic Commerce Will Reshape the Internet

38

Why SocGen's Albert Edwards Sees Double-Digit Inflation Coming Back

39

Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields

40

Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive

41

The Bank of England's Megan Greene on Monetary Policy in a World of Supply Shocks

42

Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots

43

How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

44

How Baltimore's Mayor Is Fighting the City's Vacant Housing Crisis

45

Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

46

How Taiwan Became the World's Most Perilous Geopolitical Chokepoint

47

BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

48

36: How A Quant Saw Huge Changes That Took Place on Wall Street