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Repairing a Fractured World Economy?

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This interview of Richard Kozul-White of UNCTAD cover a very broad scope of economic issues from the developing country perspective: how unregulated financial markets have hindered emerging countries, how the Global Financial Crisis market failure has been ignored, and how even before Covid, these countries were facing a decade of lost growth.

Economics 100
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Tune In To Payments Reality Check!

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Ken Rogoff is an esteemed professor of economics at Harvard University. Its infrastructure is highly concentrated in China – 70 percent of all mining capacity is located there and controlled by four mining companies in China. In Q1 of 2016 , total investments in bitcoin and blockchain ventures was $160.7 He’s a pretty smart guy.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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Payments’ Stranger Things

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Banks have invested time and money into creating their own virtual assistants to give consumers access to their bank account information via their mobile phones. That firm, GSR, previously invested $160 million in tZERO tokens during its ICO in June. Comparisons to Uber and Lyft abound: a disruptive way to reimagine transportation.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

Barry Ritholtz

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

Barry Ritholtz

What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? There are no Renaissance people left on Wall Street, and investing people who can talk about drama and talk about numbers at the same time. That’s a Graham approach investing, buy a bond with price appreciation. You’re known as the dean of valuation.

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