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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Walmart Pays Pays Off, Marketplace Lending Falls Off

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Now if we only knew the denominator and could do the math to see what those numbers really look like. That doesn’t make it a slam dunk — after all, nothing in the mobile payments space is a sure thing — but at least Walmart Pay has taken some important steps to eliminate barriers at the jump. Next time, guys? SMB Working Capital.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. Risk management. That’s a long time.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. BITTERLY MICHELL: … this isn’t a generalization, but they have a higher risk tolerance. They understand currencies. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. So we, we managed to make that work.

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Transcript: Bill Browder

Barry Ritholtz

Like investing in this kind of stuff and I had total life saving for the time of $2,000 and I converted my total life savings of $2,000 into Polish zloty, their currency, went down with my translator to the post office and subscribed to the very first privatization in Poland. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.