Joe Weisenthal's Home Page

Joe Weisenthal This is the personal website of Joe Weisenthal. I co-host Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, and play music in the band Light Sweet Crude.



- Odd Lots: Co-hosted with Tracy Alloway, where we discuss the most interesting topics in markets, finance, and economics.

- Light Sweet Crude: We play the Lower East Side style of country.

- Fedlock: An experiment in using LLMs to measure FOMC sentiment.

- Havelock: Find out where any text lives on the Orality and Literacy spectrum.


In the media

- The New York Times Magazine (2012)

- Plain English with Derek Thompson (2026)

- Semafor (2026)

- Vanity Fair (2025)

- The New York Times (2025)

- Feed Me (2025)

- Perfectly Imperfect


Email: jweisenthal@bloomberg.net | X: @thestalwart