Odd Lots

Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets

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There are all sorts of reasons why markets break down. A lack of trust. Incomplete information. Dive

It's almost a truism that better-educated people earn more money. But suppose you're not interested

The Islamic State is mostly discussed in terms of its threat to the safety and security of the world

The stock market is currently in one of its longest bull markets ever, but that doesn't hold a candl

Welcome to the start of the new year! 2016 defied almost everyone's expectations, but that won't sto

It was quite a year, 2016! Trump and Brexit alone made it one for the history books. But there was m

One of our favorite topics here at Odd Lots is market structure. On multiple occasions, for example,

What's the optimum amount of money you should bet on a particular outcome? The answer is dictated by

Something huge happened in November. No, we're not talking about the U.S. presidential election. We

By now you've probably heard of Bitcoin. But Bitcoin isn't the only digital currency. In fact, there

All great civilizations eventually collapse. It's inevitable. So what are the signs of their demise?

There's a lot to process from last week's U.S. election. One surprising thing already is the market

One could argue that "expert" has become a bad word. People routinely roll their eyes at the advice

Investors are often said to exhibit herding behavior when they follow each other into crowded positi

Dani Rodrik, a professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, was writing about

What does psychoanalytic philosophy tell us about capitalism? In this edition of Odd Lots, we speak

Brad Katsuyama has racked up oceans of newspaper ink since being propelled into the public spotlight

How is it that stocks are traded on electronic exchanges in the blink of an eye but bonds still trad

"Disruption," "incubation," "innovation"... you hear these words nonstop these days as people talk a

The most valuable commodity for investors is information, and hedge funds and asset managers are goi