Odd Lots
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Why Building a Crosswalk in LA Is Kafkaesque
September 28, 2026 · 22 minBill 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…
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Hollywood Was Cooked Before AI, and Now It's Only Getting Worse
September 25, 2026 · 32 minIs 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…
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AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally
September 24, 2026 · 28 minSocial media is really strange these days: Increasingly, our feeds are starting to look uncanny, as AI slop proliferates all over the Internet. And for the professionals who are tasked with making content, whether it is social media…
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How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech Hub
September 21, 2026 · 36 minThe story you hear nowadays is that America is struggling to make things and can't compete with China when it comes to advanced manufacturing. But of course, there's tons of high-tech stuff being produced in the US, and more and more…
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Introducing: Bloomberg Money
September 20, 2026 · 1 minBloomberg Money takes the pulse of your financial life, powered by the reporting of our global newsroom. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A Goldman M&A Banker Helped Bring the Olympics to Los Angeles
September 19, 2026 · 33 minWe're in an era of megadeals, with Goldman Sachs reporting a record year for big deal volumes as companies scramble to compete with AI. Gene Sykes has seen multiple deal cycles come and go over his multi-decade career. The co-chair of…
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There's a Mind-Boggling Number of Rich People in America
September 18, 2026 · 60 minIn 2014, the economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick were asked by the Treasury to conduct a study on the tax burden of private business owners. It was tricky to figure out how much these sorts of business owners — auto dealers, contractors…
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What Francis Fukuyama Is Seeing at 'The End of History'
September 17, 2026 · 54 minFrancis Fukuyama's essay “The End of History?” was published in the summer of 1989, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The essay's argument — that liberal democracy would not only defeat communism, but that its partisans…