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10 Friday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Here’s your investing playbook. Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. The stock market’s winners and losers will be different too.

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Holding Onto Your Marketing Budget in a Downturn

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Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. Leaders under economic pressure will likely prioritize short-term measures of growth, so there will be a bias toward marketing tactics with a clearer return on investment, such as search, social, and e-commerce.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. . ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio.

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The Walmart/Amazon Whole Paycheck Matchup

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who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S. Housing (18.5

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 The Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Rethinking And Realigning

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The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. eMarketer says based on that figure it projects that Amazon accounts now for 37.7 retail sales. market share.

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New Data: What COVID-19 Is Doing To Main Street SMBs

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The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living. For many, the sources of that cash lie largely in their personal assets — personal investments (47.5 Doing The Math. In just 21 days. . percent) and personal loans (23.1

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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

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The moves comes as the firm is working to account for declining loan volumes. Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some. That growth, however, was fueled by investors hungry for Prosper’s loans. And though Prosper was valued at $1.9