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BLS Report Shows Static Retail Jobs Picture

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Manufacturing, mining, wholesale and retail trade, and transportation and warehousing saw little change in employment for the month, the BLS said. From December to January, retail trade noted a loss of 8,300 jobs — a month after the December holiday hiring season. Payroll services firm ADP Inc.

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Fiverr’s IPO Bodes Well For (Some) Gig Economy Stocks

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The economic potential is also considerable, as in 2018 it is estimated that gig workers earned $1.7 Lyft , of course, has set its sights on transportation. The latest quarter showed a net loss of $8.3 million loss that had been seen a year ago. It’s no secret that the gig economy has grown by leaps and bounds.

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Putting the (Insta)cart before the (Grocery) horse: A COVID Favorite's Reality Check!

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Customers get the time-savings and convenience from having grocery shopping (and delivery, if chosen) done for them, but they pay in the form on both delivery fees and a service charge of 5-10% of the bill, depending on the store picked and the number of items in the basket.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

Barry Ritholtz

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. And in order to graduate from Cook you had to have at least a minor that was related, and I thought — I took an econ class and I kind of liked it, so I minored in environmental economics. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. It’s unique.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: Is that true?

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Transcript: Peter Borish

Barry Ritholtz

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.