Odd Lots
By Bloomberg
Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explore the most interesting topics in finance, markets and economics. Join the conversation every Monday and Thursday.
Episodes (7)
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The Hidden Plumbing of Commodity Finance
The global commodity finance market—worth $4 to $5 trillion and often called the 'invisible plumbing' of world trade—is a high-stakes, relationship-driven world where banks like Brown Brothers Harriman finance the movement of physical goods from mine to market
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Inside Hudson River Trading's Blistering Token Burn
Hudson River Trading's AI-driven trading operation is racing toward a future where models predict markets with near-magical precision—yet the real bottleneck isn't compute, but access to power and data center capacity. Ian Dunning, head of AI at the firm, reve
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Why Susquehanna Is Building a Prediction Markets Business
Susquehanna International Group is betting big on prediction markets not as a novelty, but as a serious institutional tool for risk management and price discovery. In a candid conversation with Jeremy Mallitz, head of prediction markets at Susquehanna, the pod
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How CoreWeave Sees the Market for Compute Right Now
The AI inference market is no longer a niche experiment—it's a corporate imperative driving explosive demand for compute, with companies like CoreWeave at the center of a global infrastructure boom. In this episode of Odd Lots, host Brandon McBee, co-founder a
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How a Vibecoded Newsletter Is Making the Hay Market More Transparent
A young founder named Aiden Johnson has built Haywire, a newsletter that brings transparency to the opaque hay market by aggregating and simplifying public data from the USDA and regional auction houses. What started as a casual question from his dad—"What’s t
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Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute
The AI industry is facing a hidden crisis: massive waste in compute usage, with data centers operating at less than 70% utilization and researchers paying up to $28 per GPU hour despite advertised rates of $2.50. Anjney Midha, founder of AMP PBC, argues that t
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Carmen Li's Plan to Build a Futures Market for Compute
Carmen Lee, CEO of Compute Exchange and Silicon Data, is building the world’s first futures market for GPU compute power—turning a critical AI bottleneck into a tradable financial instrument. Her vision hinges on solving the core problem of fungibility: not al
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