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On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Carolin Pflueger, associate professor at the University of Chicago, joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal to discuss why Treasury and global bond yields have been surging and what central banks have to do to make bonds more “bond-like” again. (Source: Bloomberg)
Fuel is a huge expense for airlines, and even on a good day, jet fuel prices are pretty volatile. Throw in two major wars now effecting energy infrastructure, and fuel prices across the board are higher and higher. Airlines have long tried to manage this expense through fuel hedging, using things like swaps and options to hedge against future increases in the price of jet fuel. David Kang, former group treasurer at Qatar Airways, has firsthand experience hedging for a large carrier, and he tells
On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast recorded live at the Vermont Hollywood theater, real estate developer Zach Lasry joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to talk about homebuilding in LA and the Kafkaesque process of getting a crosswalk built in the city. (Source: Bloomberg)
Is Hollywood just screwed? The American entertainment business has been on a steady decline since the pandemic and now AI has entered the picture. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, creative director of LA Material, Hayes Davenport, joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal at a live recording at the Vermont Hollywood theater to discuss how generative AI is threatening the movie making business and the ways in which Hollywood is pushing back. (Source: Bloomberg)
Is Hollywood just screwed? Writers are earning less. There are fewer shoots taking place in Los Angeles. And people are freaked out about AI. But according to Hayes Davenport, things were starting to feel bad in Hollywood before chatbots showed up to the scene. Davenport — who’s written for shows like Family Guy and is now creative director of LA Material and the co-host of the fantastic Hollywood Handbook podcast — joined us on stage at the Vermont to give us a history lesson on Hollywood's ste
Francis Fukuyama's 1989 essay “The End of History?” argued that liberal democracy would not only defeat communism, but that its partisans might miss the “courage, imagination and idealism” that defined the ideological battle. The Stanford professor joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal on the Odd Lots podcast to discuss how his argument has evolved since the end of the Cold War and what's driving today's extremist ideology. (Source: Bloomberg)
On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, journalist Oliver Bullough joins Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal to discuss why criminal enterprises love to launder money in the form of $100 bills and why money laundering resembles Renaissance-era banking. (Source: Bloomberg)