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Transcript: Apollo’s Torsten Slok

Barry Ritholtz

I, I disagree with his forecast for this year, which is 0% chance of recession. On top of that, you also get, so this is as a PhD student, you also get, of course I need to say this, free healthcare. And the United Nations is forecasting that over the next 10 years that will shrink from a billion to 900 million.

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Transcript: Stephanie Kelton on US Fiscal Policy and the ‘Deficit Myth’

Barry Ritholtz

They’ve made forecasts, they’ve made predictions about what will and won’t happen, and none of it’s come true. And he’s this old British guy who was, you know, quite famous in England as a policy advisor and an economic forecaster. He was known as one of the, I think seven wise men. We shared a wall.

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

The Big Picture

He was going to repeal Obamacare and give us a big beautiful healthcare system. Now the problem with free trade is that it’s harms our concentrated and obvious as David Otter found out, but its benefits are diffuse. Human beings, as Philip Tetlock described, don’t forecast very well, even even the best experts.

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Transcript: Melissa Smith, co-Head of Commercial Banking at JPMorgan

Barry Ritholtz

I mean certainly there’s still like a huge, a huge concentration in kind of, you know, the Bay area and then kind of New York, Boston area. But there are cities, Miami’s a good example for our healthcare business. So again, depending on the industry, it depends on sort of where our concentration of bankers are.

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Traditional Healthcare Is Going Under The Knife Of Disruption

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The greatest health crisis in a generation is poised to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare , technology and payments as never before. We’re in healthcare. We’re not in retail healthcare,” Walmart senior director of strategy and customer experience for health and wellness Matt Parry told MedCityNews.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: UK Regulators To Form Digital Markets Unit; Italy Fines Apple $10 Million Over Claims About iPhone Water Resistance

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and abroad that the concentration of power amongst a small number of tech companies is curtailing growth in the tech sector, reducing innovation and potentially having negative impacts on the people and businesses that rely on them.”. A potential “Netflix Tax,” which is forecast to bring in more than $1.2

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What is Long Range Planning and How Can it Help Your Growth?

The Finance Weekly

Long range planning extends beyond conventional budgeting, planning, and forecasting processes which usually span a year, and concentrates mainly on financial goals and key initiatives that are 5-10 years or more into the future. That’s exactly how Long-range Planning (LRP) works – not only for individuals but for businesses as well.