PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

In agriculture, AgriLedger , founded by Haitian entrepreneur Genevieve Leveille, will launch this year to transform the food supply chain landscape. Haiti has seen a blockchain boom. Another initiative, the Blockchain Cotton Project (BCP), is set to help the country produce millions of pounds in cotton.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, families might spend up to $1,280 annually on clothing, and over the 18 years formally designated as childhood approximately 6 percent of the total cost of parenting will go toward clothing. Outfitting children can be a shockingly expensive proposition for parents.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. We figured all those things out and we got agriculture. So we went from agricultural scarcity to having enough food. Previous transitions like agriculture emerged over thousands of years and was incredibly violent.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2016

“The long summer break (our national accommodation for an agricultural life that’s long since faded into history in most communities) speaks volumes for the power of nostalgia and inertia. … I still love summer, but that love definitely comes with a price tag,” noted Times writer KJ Dell’Antonia.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The price tag, however didn’t scare off investors — who liked Founder and “hipster-vegan” Doug Evans’ pitch — and thought that selling “smart juice” had a future. Well, as long as one was willing to purchase its proprietary juice pouches and a $700 piece of Wi-Fi-enabled smart hardware (to do what?),

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. Oh, you just do work with mathematics and intellectual activities. You don’t do any dirty work. Translation, it’s not hot, right? RITHOLTZ: Right. BRYANT: I mean, and it’s beautiful.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Tag on top of that for healthcare. So in other words, people, companies, employers don’t wanna hire a $40,000 employee, right. Still far above minimum wage, but on the bottom half of the wage spectrum. ’cause there’s an $11,000 Right.

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