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Joe Weisenthal

Co-host, Odd Lots, Odd Lots

Search every verified Joe Weisenthal interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Joe Weisenthal, co-host of the Bloomberg podcast Odd Lots, has continued to produce a wide range of episodes covering markets, economics, and technology. Recent appearances included discussions on the French debt crisis, rising US producer prices, the crypto platform Hyperliquid, AI risks, and the state of European competitiveness. He also hosted live shows in Los Angeles and Chicago, featuring conversations on topics such as LA real estate, Hollywood's struggles, and the region's industrial tech growth. In these episodes, Weisenthal frequently commented on market volatility, rising Treasury yields, and the pace of change in financial markets. Weisenthal has also engaged with guests on the implications of AI across various sectors, including mathematics, social media, and entertainment. In one episode, he discussed the possibility of AI-driven societal changes with Francis Fukuyama, and in another, he spoke with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about the company's response to a security incident. His commentary often reflects a focus on how technological and economic shifts are reshaping industries, with a tone that blends curiosity and concern about the speed of these developments.

Recent appearances

  • The French Political Crisis That's Turning Into a Debt Crisis | Odd Lots

    October 16, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Just about everyone is worried about what is going on in France right now: the country's public finances are in sorry shape and there are fears that the French bond selloff, and the country's growing debt crisis, might spillover into the rest of Europe. On top of that, the 2027 elections have investors worried: The two leading candidates, Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, aren't seen to be up to the task of taming France's fiscal turmoil. Shahin Vallée was an advisor to Emmanuel Macron when he was an economic minister and during his first presidential election campaign. Since then, he's pa…

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  • US Producer Prices Up Most Since 2022 as Energy Pain Worsens

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    US producer prices rose in September at the fastest pace in more than four years as higher energy costs reverberated through the US economy. The producer price index advanced 1.3% from a month earlier — the most since March 2022 — and 6.3% from a year earlier, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Stephanie Roth, Chief Economist at Wolfe Research, reacts to the data. -------- Watch Bloomberg Radio LIVE on YouTube Weekdays 7am-6pm ET Saturday & Sunday 7am-10am ET WATCH HERE: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF Follow us on X:   / bloombergradio   Subscribe to our Podcasts: Bloomberg Daybreak…

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  • Jeff Yan's Plan to Bring the Entire Financial Industry Onto Hyperliquid | Odd Lots

    October 15, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Traders and market watchers around the world started talking about a crypto platform called Hyperliquid earlier this year, when speculators used markets built on top of it to trade crude oil after war broke out in Iran. What Hyperliquid allowed for was a 24/7 market on the blockchain. In August, President Trump said the CFTC was working on bringing “Hyperliquid into the United States in a fully compliant and legal fashion.” Hyperliquid currently operates outside the US, but that hasn't stopped it from growing prodigiously in the last year. Jeff Yan, CEO and co-founder of Hyperliquid Labs, join…

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  • Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All | Odd Lots

    October 12, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Since the Hugging Face incident, concerns over AI doomsday scenarios has entered the mainstream. But of course, some people have been warning about this for years, long before LLMs or ChatGPT. In their 2025 book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky spelled out their vision of humanity's inevitable demise once superintelligent AI is built. In this episode, we speak with Soares, who serves as president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, about why he believes it's impossible to "align" superintelligent AI, and how exactly the technology can and will g…

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  • How AI Is Upending the World of Mathematics | Odd Lots

    October 09, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Last month, OpenAI announced that it had produced an AI-generated proof for the Navier-Stokes problem. LLMs used to be bad at counting, but now they are solving math problems that have stumped humans for decades. Meanwhile, at universities, the problem of AI in education continues: Now that LLMs can do a student's homework, teachers are struggling to keep up. It is clear that AI is very quickly changing how math is taught and how it is practiced by professionals. Justin Solomon, who is the associate dean for engineering education at MIT, gives us a primer on how mathematicians (both pure and a…

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  • The Story of Europe's Decline Isn't So Simple | Odd Lots

    October 08, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    It has been two years since the publication of the Draghi report and the problems the report identified about European competitiveness are far from solved: Demographic challenges, rising energy costs, and a lagging tech sector still cast a shadow over Europe. But according to the economist and policy analyst Dominik Leusder (who also writes the Leusder of Last Resort Substack) the Draghi report might have mismeasured the true scale of Europe's issues, and he asks if the popular narrative of European decline is an accurate one. We also speak about whether Europe needs a frontier AI model, why l…

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  • How Airlines Actually Hedge Higher Fuel Prices | Odd Lots

    October 05, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    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 us exactly how it all works. He also explains why airlines use heating oil as a proxy for jet fuel,…

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  • Why Treasuries Are ‘Risky’ Again | Odd Lots

    October 05, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    We all know that Treasury yields have been surging, alongside bond yields all around the world. So what explains the selloff and does it mean that bonds are becoming fundamentally riskier? What happens if investors can no longer hedge stocks with government debt? And how do expectations of the Federal Reserve's "reaction function" fit in? In this episode, we speak with Carolin Pflueger, associate professor at the University of Chicago and a resident scholar at the Chicago Fed, about her work on the bond market and central banks. We discuss why bonds have become more stock-like, what that means…

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  • El Salvador - The Road to Bitcoin | Can Bitcoin Really End Poverty? | 4K

    October 04, 2026 · 📺 The Crypto Vault

    El Salvador - The Road to Bitcoin - In September 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. El Salvador - The Road to Bitcoin (2021) Genre: Documentary Country: USA, El Salvador Language: English Narrator: Benjamin Lee Music: Floating Home - Brian Bolger Storyline: Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have long been a topic of debate. Many argue about the pros and cons of these digital currencies. The introduction of bitcoin as legal tender fuels these discussions even more and makes them all the more present. Although it will take some time for…

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  • Everything in Markets Is Now Moving Incredibly Fast | Odd Lots

    October 01, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    The market is acting in ways that make it very hard to get a handle of what exactly is going on right now. The overall indices are surging. Many individual stocks are doing badly. Rates are rising, but the economy is still robust. There's capex spending and the AI trade. There's the war in Iran. And of course there's persistent inflation and the Fed's ongoing tightening cycle. On this episode, we speak with our former colleague Luke Kawa, who is now head of markets at Sherwood News. We go over all the big market themes, and he explains why the one consistent theme of this moment is the sheer s…

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  • Bill McBride's Favorite Housing Charts | Odd Lots

    September 28, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    People constantly ask Bill McBride when the housing market might look a little less chaotic. His response, more often than not, is “yeah, good luck.” But for a more detailed answer, for our LA live show, Bill gave our audience a chart presentation that helps explain the slumping housing market, looking at mortgage rates, house prices, and home sales. Watch Bloomberg Vodcasts:    • Bloomberg Video Podcasts | Interviews & More   Watch more Odd Lots episodes:    • Odd Lots   Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway analyze the weird patterns, the complex issues and the newest market crazes…

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  • Why Building a Crosswalk in LA Is Kafkaesque | Odd Lots

    September 28, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Podcasts

    Bill McBride did not just predict the 2008 housing bubble, he helped invent financial blogging with his Calculated Risk newsletter. Zach Lasry, meanwhile, is much newer to the scene, but in his career as a real estate developer, he is already responsible for building one of LA's hottest new neighborhoods — Melrose Hill. We spoke to both of them at our live show at the Vermont Hollywood, for a wide-ranging panel discussion on LA real estate. We talk about the difficulty of sourcing construction components, the Kafkaesque process of getting a crosswalk built in LA, and how self-driving cars migh…

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Notable quotes

“This is the core thing. It's like, okay, we'll backstop your debt if you do this fiscal consolidation. If they could do the fiscal consolidation, we wouldn't be in this. We wouldn't be talking about this period. So it's like that's the whole ballgame here. And maybe like in 2011 because things were so dire, it's like, okay, there was a perception that government would. But obviously if the political will existed to d”

“I think a classic sign that something is going to be a big deal, in my opinion, is when like Bloomberg start listing it. So for example, like years ago, I don't know, I think it was like 2012 or 2013 was the first time that on the terminal you could look up the Bitcoin price and it's like, oh, that's probably a sign of like maybe something is going to happen here. Recently, there is now a Hype page and you can look a”

“The problem is with the Draghi's measure, which is a frighteningly common measure, but I think this is well documented to be the wrong measure. It does so by fixing prices at a given year. So basically it's measured in the report in $2010. So if you express GDP in international dollars, which is a synthetic currency that has the same purchasing power as the US dollar, and it's benchmarked to a year in which people ha”

“I think it's probably true that Europe will not be able to create a frontier model any time soon. I think it's a good case that it shouldn't try to do so, and that it should instead focus on this issue of sovereignty, of being not being dependent on either the US or China for its tech stack, which currently is very much so, and on focusing on whatever actually suits the business needs of most European corporates. My ”

“I sat down with my deputy treasurer and uh you know we talked about it and looked at it from many different angles and you know then of course me coming from an oil trading background I look at a refinery and I see that they're a consumer and they're a producer and so I said look as an airline we have to produce something we're producing a seat for you to sit on to get you from point A to point B. So we're producing ”

“I think the US carriers aren't as prevalent. It's because, right, they got smacked in 2014 and 2015. So, they realized, right, Delta recently 2020, right, lost nearly over a billion dollars. So, they were still hedging as well. But most of the maring carriers, especially the small ones, especially the smaller airlines, they just put everything into the search into the search charge. So we pass all the cost on to the ”

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