Sat.Oct 21, 2023

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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of pumpkin spiced latte, grab a seat by the window, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Brazil Is Embracing the Crisis That Everyone Else Wants to Avoid; Offers Venezuelans Jobs in Growing Migrant Crisis : Latin America’s largest economy is linking newcomers with jobs, while its neighbors and the US struggle with a migration surge that shows no signs of slowing. ( Bloomberg ) • After The Human : The increasingly symbiotic relationship betwe

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Ashok Vaswani appointed as MD & CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank, gets RBI nod

CFO News

Ashok Vaswani is a Bachelor of Commerce, Economics and Accountancy, from the Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics (Bombay University), CA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

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MiB: Bethany McLean on Pandemic Fails

Barry Ritholtz

This week, we speak with Bethany McLean, a writer for Vanity Fair and coauthor of The Smartest Guys in the Room. She was previously Editor-at-large of Fortune and spent three years working at Goldman Sachs. Her latest book, The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind , was coauthored with Joe Nocera. She explains how the general state of healthcare in the United States was one giant pre-existing condition; that was a major contributor to excess de