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The Sharing Economy come home: The IPO of Airbnb!

Musings on Markets

Setting the Table As with any valuation, the first step in valuing Airbnb is trying to understand its history and its business model, including how it has navigated the economic consequences of the COVID. It’s relative: The first is that it was not just Airbnb that felt the pain from the economic shut down.

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A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!

Musings on Markets

That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business. Through this period, t he big studios still controlled a large share of the content business, but independent studies, often more daring in choice of topics and settings, took a share.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. And what’s their budget like a fraction of it, right? SEIDES: It’s mostly that and it goes to what you said, which is I love having these conversations and have never advertised on the podcast. RITHOLTZ: Right. It just overwhelmed them.

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Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?

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The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

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Who’ll Rule The Future Of Commerce?

PYMNTS

The Grand Bazaar was the mastermind of the ruling Ottoman Empire , which thought that organizing thousands of merchants into a single location for shoppers to visit would establish Istanbul as an important trading center, boost economic development in the region and add to the ruling party’s wealth. For centuries, it did.

Sales 44
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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

Barry Ritholtz

You turned out to be the first dual economics financial management major at Quinnipiac. I thought it was, no, you guys were pretty fair so I can — HAMBURGER: So — RITHOLTZ: But that is a legitimate concern, especially for a small firm that has a modest budget for legal. You have a concentrated securities position, right?

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2:00PM Water Cooler 1/17/2023 | naked capitalism

CFO News Room

Davos tries testing: Everyone at the World Economic Forum annual meeting — including journalists and participants — has to take a PCR test upon arrival. An ERV can economically introduce fresh ventilation air into your home. We are now two weeks away from holiday travel, so we should have a result. See below at case data.