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White House Sees Hearing Aids as Chance to Lower Prices Through More Competition

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At present, just four manufacturers control 84% of the hearing-aid market, according to the Open Markets Institute, a think tank critical of corporate concentration. Has corporate concentration raised prices for you? The reason, analysts say, is federal and state rules that compel manufacturers to sell through medical professionals.

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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

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Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. He previously worked at a financial planning firm in Bethesda, Maryland, and as a journalist covering the banking and insurance industries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Read more of Adam’s articles here.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, while you can see that concentration in markets, and sales, and trading, once I started really working with our private bank in a meaningful way, I was then able to lead teams of investment counselors and investors. It’s late in the summer in 2022, markets sold off 22, 24 percent, recovered about half of those losses ….

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Transcript: Mathieu Chabran

Barry Ritholtz

CHABRAN: Obviously, food, energy, housing, and not even talking about school, healthcare, and obviously in Europe we have a totally different environment about this matter. We’re investing in profitable mid-market companies making 20 million, 25 million, 50 million EBITDA and needed capital in. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

Barry Ritholtz

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. .” Okay, how do I express it? RITHOLTZ: Happens.

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

Barry Ritholtz

They had the access to loss and excel really. And I think that’s a loss. I create these concentric circles for people who have time and say, if you have this much time, try these extra things. RITHOLTZ: You would have to put some flesh on those bones, some numbers, to determine is it still profitable to do this or not?

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