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MiB: Women in Finance

Barry Ritholtz

She is also the author of “ Damsel in Distressed ,” which (surprisingly) turns out to be the very first memoir written by a woman working at a hedge fund (it’s a fun romp through 1998-2018 era). In our discussion, we covered the lack of female representation at hedge funds.

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Phishing Attacks Continue To Find Fuel In A Global Pandemic

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The accusations include claims that the individual sent the fraudulent checks to a sand dredging company to settle debts; when the recipient went to cash the checks, they reportedly bounced. 555 billion is the price tag small businesses could see as a result of data breaches , according to recent analysis by iomart. said recently.

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LendKey And Unlocking A Generation Of Borrowers For Small Banks And Credit Unions

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At the upper edge of the spectrum, students can be looking at a ~$330,000 total price tag for an education at an elite private college. And with price tags that large, there is going to be a generation of students who are by necessity going to be seeking private student loans. New Financing — New Growth.

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Making Marketplaces For Experiences

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The generation that entered adulthood attempting to simultaneously clear the dual hurdles of record levels of student loan debt and an entirely stalled economy, he said, is in some ways thinking very differently about commerce than even its older siblings in Generation X. Moreover, competition in the field is not a bad thing.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And at that time, Union Square Ventures’ Fred and Brad had started the firm, they had just raised the first fund. I led the Union Square Ventures investment in Etsy, I became a venture partner for that, and then became a GP in the 2008 fund.

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Surprise Outcomes Edition: Cybercrime, Student Loans And CAN Capital

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federal government is on track to provide $108 billion or more in debt forgiveness for student loans during the next few years. Those refunds come care of President Obama’s plan to help struggling student loan borrowers — and they have a price tag attached that is more expensive than previously thought.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

But once the rules started changing, it became difficult around things like seeding new funds. Within a year, you couldn’t be more than 10% of the fund. RITHOLTZ: So were you — in the early days, it was mutual funds it was SMAs, what were you guys doing? JOHNSON: Yeah, and then we took on some debt.