Odd Lots

The world is facing a chip shortage. Numerous companies, including the auto sector, are facing an inability to get semic... Read more

Investors are often said to exhibit herding behavior when they follow each other into crowded positions — creating marke... Read more

It's fun to talk about what money is, but often it's hard to connect the dots and make it actually relevant to the discu... Read more

By this point, everybody knows that online dating is a massive phenomenon, reshaping the social habits of the young and ... Read more

In developed economies, younger generations have faced stagnant wages, mediocre employment prospects and dizzying costs ... Read more

For years, people have identified the lack of fiscal transfers and fiscal burden sharing as one of the glaring architect... Read more

In response to the economic crisis, governments around the world have engaged in stimulative policies that might be char... Read more

Among the biggest trends in the world of markets is the rise of passive investing. Rather than pay high fees to active m... Read more

Officially, the US unemployment rate stands at 11%. This is higher than the worst levels of the financial crisis. And th... Read more

For years, Intel has been the pre-eminent U.S. semiconductor company. But lately, the company has stumbled. This past su... Read more

The hit show Seinfeld is often referred to as the show about nothing, but maybe it's actually a show all about economics... Read more

One of the oldest, most basic strategies in investing is value investing, which, for lack of a better way to put it, mea... Read more

In this age of algorithms and quants, you hear less and less about good old stock picking. You know, like the style of i... Read more

Dani Rodrik, a professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, was writing about the downside of glo... Read more

This past summer, the business intelligence software company MicroStrategy made waves when it put some of its extra cash... Read more

The stock market is currently in one of its longest bull markets ever, but that doesn't hold a candle to what's going on... Read more

Markets are at their most exciting when they're in a bubble. Spectacular fortunes can be made and lost in the blink of a... Read more

Many people like to claim that the Federal Reserve is responsible for the high degree of leverage and speculation in the... Read more

In the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, you heard a lot of talk about the US becoming like Greece unless the budget d... Read more

For years and years, the Chinese economy has been characterized as a bubble, with too much debt, and a history of badly ... Read more