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The ‘Nine Deadly Costs Of Fraud’

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Kount’s latest report “Calculating The 9 Deadly Costs Of Fraud,” does the math – and emphasizes how not managing fraud digs heavily into profits. In fact, fraud losses as an overall percentage of revenue nearly doubled in 2015 as a result of lost or stolen products, according to Kount.

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

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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. Jet.com is not profitable and has no clear path to profits, critics say. But, don’t you worry, it’s all math-based so nothing can go wrong, so keep clinging to that.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

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. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. My dad thought that cash flow was profit.

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Unlocking Growth By Asking For A Referral And Showing Value

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He’s a loss leader.” We talked about Social Security and Medicare. Michael: And so, did you have to create the Social Security, Medicare presentation, and create the Social Security, Medicare mailers to get them to come to the presentation? ” Michael: And so, then what was the whiteboard flow?

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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

Barry Ritholtz

I invest less because I’m interested in what widgets a company does, and more in the capital structure and how to position yourself, what the other guy is going to do at the bond level or senior secured level, and how to position yourself to make money. It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.

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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?