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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Bitcoin Busts, Payments Get Faster And The Eyes Have It

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So sizzles all the way around – unless, of course, you’re one of the ones asking banks to invest in a real-time payments capability that does exactly the same thing. It wasn’t because it has the secret to running a profitable eCommerce site or success in monetizing memberships a la its CEO’s alma mater, Amazon. Iris Scanning.

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Unlocking Growth By Asking For A Referral And Showing Value

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And I had some great mentors, and they taught us about insurance, and investments, and prospecting. And he flat out told me he wasn’t going to invest the time into me. He’s a loss leader.” Terry: Exactly. So, in theory, I learned the process of building a financial services business from the ground up.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

I went home, got my mother, I sold my mother on making a $40 investment. I made $300 a week on a $40 investment. So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. These are not dumb people.

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

Barry Ritholtz

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. RITHOLTZ: You describe what we now call junk bonds, we used to call high yield, what we now call distressed investing, we used to call vulture investing. But it was very tiny. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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It’s a storyline with some very strong parallels to the cryptocurrency stories being told and the investments that they now garner. These early advocates have stimulated a vast amount of investment into this vision; $1.7 billion has been invested into bitcoin/crypto-related ventures over the last eight years.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Anything else?

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, this will be my shortest introduction ever, Clifford Asness and I just go over the entire universe of quant factor and value investing. So given AQR has been around for 25 years, how has your investing philosophy evolved over that period, assuming it’s changed at all?