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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Uber, Bitcoin, Botnets, SWIFT – And The Wells Wallets

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The plan is an ambitious one where more than 40 percent of the firm’s ATMs are scheduled to be running with NFC technology by the end of the year. The hope is that the brand/experience convo will lure in customers and keep them buying.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

Barry Ritholtz

And so my plan was actually to quit and not do anything and figure out what my next step was. I mean, crypto is fascinating because like Elon Musk, it was a laboratory for understanding financial concepts, right? Like people who were like kind of rebuilding the financial system from scratch.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

Even if you have a Soviet planned economy, you need to allocate resources across time. And if you’re not guided by the interest rates, as which the Soviets weren’t, you’re going to have these misallocations of capital that eventually clog up the system. Now, negative rates may seem a lot worse. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Coronavirus: European Bank Branches Close, Limit Hours

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The coronavirus could have far-reaching effects on grocery stores, entertainment and banking, while boosting delivery services and identity verification services. Regal Cinemas plans to shutter all theaters starting on Tuesday (March 17). Universal Pictures plans to make current movies and those to come available for rental on demand.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. RIEDER: — and let the system do what it’s going to do. And I don’t think we need to keep, the economy will do its job of keeping the system on pace. And you know, you have whether it’s derivatives, the intertwined financial system.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

Barry Ritholtz

And he had this game plan. How did that affect your plans going forward? Tell us a little bit about the plan for launching an independent economics research 00:09:15 [Speaker Changed] Shop. I if they planned ahead the year before and, and pass some legislation. But he was a phenomenal person. On the ball, right.

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Transcript: Zeke Faux, Number Go Up

Barry Ritholtz

I found the book to be really entertaining and, and amusing and a little bit horrifying. It really is just a, a, a very entertaining book and I thought this conversation was, was absolutely fascinating. So 00:13:04 [Speaker Changed] It sounds like almost a legitimate business plan. But Zeke is a, a fascinating guy.

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