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10 Tuesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Stay at Home Macro ) • The Great Disconnect: Why Voters Feel One Way About the Economy but Act Differently : Americans are angry and anxious, and not just about prices, which may be driving economic sentiment more than their financial situations, economists said. ( That’s true for most families. I found their families. (

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LendingClub and Morgan Stanley, A Tale of Two Bank Deals

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The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. LendingClub has estimated that it will save about $25 million a year on fees paid to WebBank, which acts as a “pass-through” entity that enables LendingClub to make those loans. Call it a tale of two bank deals.

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How Choosy Is Resetting Fast Fashion

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The ideology is that just because the outfit of the day doesn’t quite match up with a potential buyer’s figure or checking account balance, that doesn’t mean something equally fabulous can’t be conjured up – someone just needs to do the conjuring. Choosy is hoping to be that entity.

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Going ’Clean’ Isn’t Easy Work — Just Ask Panera

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Going clean and green is just about everyone’s favorite marketing tag line these days. In that environment, Panera Bread’s corporate pledge two years ago to clean up its food act and remove manmade preservatives, sweeteners, colors and flavors from its foods wasn’t much of a surprise.

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Jumio CTO Paints A Portrait Of ‘IDV Nirvana’

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Labhesh Patel, CTO, Jumio says that striking the perfect balance between making life harder for fraudsters and easier for legitimate customers is a bit like finding nirvana – and the path is different for every organization. Data tagging is how ground truth is established. Then there’s two-factor authentication.

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A New Stance Against Traditional Checkout

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Making it work, however, is a delicate balance, because consumers aren’t just looking to skip the line – they are looking to preserve and prioritize the real estate on their phone. From there, they can use their phone’s camera to scan the barcodes on product tags.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

Just an incredible, insightful conversation about how to build a company, how to grow through acquisitions, how to make sure everybody on your team understands their role, is appreciated, and is acting and performing at the highest levels. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right.