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Odd Lots — 70 episodes

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1

Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed

2

Richmond Fed’s Tom Barkin on the Surprisingly Resilient Real Economy

3

Austan Goolsbee Is Worried the Economy Is Overheating

4

Kansas City Fed President Jeffrey Schmid on the First Jackson Hole of the Warsh Era

5

The Nigerian Industrial Behemoth That Could Reshape the African Economy

6

Jasmine Sun on What the AI Industry Got Wrong About the Public Backlash

7

Nick Bostrom on What Happens if AI Solves All of Our Problems

8

What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Really Tells Us About AI Danger

9

A Historic El Niño Is Coming That Could Cost the World Trillions

10

Trucking Is Booming Again, And Drivers Aren't Happy About It

11

NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien on Running a Media Brand in the Age of AI

12

Introducing: Our Town

13

How a Sardine Gets From the Ocean to a Can

14

Brad Setser on the US's Unusual Japanese Yen Intervention

15

The Tungsten Market Is Warning of an Upcoming War

16

Why Private Credit Got Entangled With Insurance

17

How the Iranian Economy Actually Works

18

Branko Milanovic on What Comes After Globalization

19

How Financial Advisors Can Grow During the Great Wealth Transfer (Sponsored Content)

20

How Franchise Restaurants Opened the Door to the Gig Economy

21

Why Apple Is Heading Into a Pivotal Moment

22

The Creator of Claude Code on The Hottest Piece of Software in the World

23

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

24

Why Soccer Analytics Works Like Volatility Arbitrage Trading

25

NY Governor Kathy Hochul on Her One Year Data Center Moratorium

26

Why AI Might Actually Create More Work for Lawyers

27

The Korean Levered ETFs Shaking Markets All Around the World

28

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

29

These Are the Sharps Actually Making Money on Prediction Markets

30

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

31

What Dan Wang Saw on His Last Trip to China

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

How the 1994 World Cup Transformed the Business of Football Forever

36

Grace Shao on What the World Should Know About Chinese AI

37

How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era

38

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

39

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

40

The Iran War’s Lasting Scars Across Asia

41

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

42

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

43

How a Vibecoded Newsletter Is Making the Hay Market More Transparent

44

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

45

How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now

46

Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business

47

Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn

48

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

49

The Hidden Plumbing of Commodity Finance

50

How the Invention of Rope Gave Us Modern Civilization

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

Architect Norman Foster on Why the West Struggles to Build Big

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive

63

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

64

Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots

65

How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

66

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

67

Inside the Booming Market for Dinosaur Fossils

68

How Taiwan Became the World's Most Perilous Geopolitical Chokepoint

69

BlackRock's Rob Goldstein on the Next Megatrends in Finance

70

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