July 2, 2025· 29 min

The Greatest Ever Panel on the World's Most Important Market

Orality
Model
77%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(2,106 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,457 words)
M:28%
GuestIra Jersey(964 words)
M:28%
GuestJosh Younger(546 words)
M:29%
GuestNellie Liang(405 words)
M:29%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic29%
very, absolutely, amazing
Engagement68%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
like (59x), know (48x), about (45x)
Parallelism94%
And I'm Jill Weisenthal...., So what you are about to hear ..., So we wanted together some of ...
Sound Patterns92%
60 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases12%
at the end of the day, you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging9%
could, might, relatively
Passive Voice7%
was recorded, is called, are complicated
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, information, volatility
Subordination8%
because, therefore, since
Sentence Length33%
Avg: 13.3 words/sentence
Word Complexity47%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style32%
443 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style79%
monthly, carefully, actually

Description

Okay, that's quite a title but we think it's justified! In this special episode — recorded live onstage at our June 26 event in New York City — we bring together some of the best thinkers we know when it comes to the US Treasury market. US government bonds form the backbone of global financial markets, and are the "risk-free" rate to which all other rates are benchmarked. But recently, there's been concern about who will buy all those bonds as the US deficit explodes higher. Meanwhile, there have been long-running concerns about volatility and liquidity in the market. We speak with Nellie Liang, senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former undersecretary of the Treasury for domestic finance, Ira Jersey, chief US interest rate strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, and Josh Younger, a lecturer at Columbia University and repeated Odd Lots guest. Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox — now delivered every weekday — plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.