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Odd Lots

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

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 1,299 posts collected by Sputnik

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Odd Lots is hosted by Joe Weisenthal , Tracy Alloway , Matt Levine , Brad Setser , Josh Younger , Lev Menand , Viktor Shvets , Zoltan Pozsar , Hyun Song Shin , Neil Dutta , Tom Barkin and Joe Wisenthal .

Said on Odd Lots

“I have a hostility toward raising taxes in New York. I've shown that I'm going to stand firm because I happen to embrace people that are successful in business here in New York because they're the ones who are creating the jobs.” — Kathy Hochul, Odd Lots

Kathy Hochul · 2026-07-15 Permalink → Listen →

“It is extreme frustration with the cost of everything going up, the knowledge that no matter how hard you work, you play by the rules, you'll never be able to have what your parents and grandparents had, which is the possibility of owning your own home.” — Kathy Hochul, Odd Lots

Kathy Hochul · 2026-07-15 Permalink → Listen →

“It is not a ban. It is simply saying step back, take a breath, and get it right. Businesses want that knowledge of what the rules of the road are.” — Kathy Hochul, Odd Lots

Kathy Hochul · 2026-07-15 Permalink → Listen →

“Two weeks ago, we have two clients in the banking industry and they got hacked and they called us to help them with the incident response. Usually it took us maybe a month, once we come into a network, to spread out. For the AI, they broke inside the network on Monday. By Tuesday, they're everywhere. It's like cancer, it spread at machine speed.” — Thai Duong, Odd Lots

Thai Duong · 2026-10-30 Permalink → Listen →

“At Calif, we think we are entering the era of the centaur hackers. Basically, the best hacker right now is a combination of AI and humans. … AI is powerful. It can hack anything, but it still requires a human expert. And we don't know how long this is going to last. Maybe three months. Maybe we come back here and by the end of the year, we tell you we retire now. There's nothing else for us to do. Maybe it lasts three years.” — Thai Duong, Odd Lots

Thai Duong · 2026-10-30 Permalink → Listen →

“Around about 60% of investors, we asked them a question… AI financing is going to be a problem for the foreseeable future. Only 60% said yes. By definition, what's happened over the past couple of weeks means that answer should be 100%, right?… So what's happening in the AI trade, to me, is evidence of almost a denial of a reality that's already here.” — Alex Altman, Odd Lots

Alex Altman · 2026-10-29 Permalink → Listen →

“It's possible that AI makes markets more efficient. It makes things cheaper, et cetera. It is also possible that it just becomes deadweight loss where we arrive at the exact same price that we would have before, except the only difference is that both sides have paid more to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta in order to rearrive at the same equilibrium that we could have had without all this AI.” — Joe Weisenthal, Odd Lots

Joe Weisenthal · 2026-10-26 Permalink → Listen →

“Even when directed explicitly to go get the cheapest item, the agents rooted around in your email inbox, identified that you could indeed afford more than the cheapest option, and brought back a more expensive option.” — Lindsay Owens, Odd Lots

Lindsay Owens · 2026-10-26 Permalink → Listen →

“When she is dying, she actually, you know, people ask her, you know, you were so famous. You were the most famous author in the English language for a time. Do you want to write an autobiography? And she's like, no, but I would like to dictate some projects I didn't get to. And the first project she dictates basically is that somebody should think about the potato as a national food for Ireland. And she suggests that people look at David Ricardo's letters to her as a starting point.” — Jeanna Smialek, Odd Lots

Jeanna Smialek · 2026-10-23 Permalink → Listen →

“The colonists came with a model of how you colonize the new world, which is actually completely based on the Spanish conquest of Latin America. It's just that ... there were no indigenous people to exploit in Virginia. ... They didn't bother planting any crops, and two-thirds of them starved to death because their model was: we don't work, we exploit the indigenous people.” — James Robinson, Odd Lots

James Robinson · 2026-10-21 Permalink → Listen →

“I think AI can help form a better plan, but it wouldn't actually help you execute that plan. ... My normal response there is to point to incentive problems. ... I'm on the von Mises Hayek side of the calculation debate. And I also believe in the inherent good of the market as a coordinating mechanism.” — Bhaskar Sunkara, Odd Lots

Bhaskar Sunkara · 2026-10-22 Permalink → Listen →

“24/7 is inevitable. And you can fight it. You can say, I don't like it. I don't want to stay up at two in the morning. But risk doesn't know what time of day it is. … The biggest problem with 24/7 is the banking system. … There's nobody on the planet that could pre-fund on a Friday a $76 trillion market as the banking system is closed. … Unless we have a true 24/7 banking system, we won't have 24/7 markets.” — Terry Duffy, Odd Lots

Terry Duffy · 2026-10-20 Permalink → Listen →

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