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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. ( The good news stretches far beyond the rich. Jobs are plentiful.

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MiB: Women in Finance

Barry Ritholtz

As the list shows, there are a great many women in very senior posts in finance – from CEOs to CIOs, from Department heads to Chief Economists, etc. Thus, we add MiB: Women in Finance to our prior lists of Venture Capitalists and Psychologists & Behavioral Economists.

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Yes, Twelve Dollars Is a Good Price for Two Batteries–Under the…

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Economists are wary of the word “need;” whether you need something or not is context-dependent, and I’m always amazed at how much my kids’ “needs” change when they’re paying with their money rather than mine. The $6 price tag for each battery sent a not-so-subtle social message. I’m actually not sure this means anything useful.

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The Robots Are Coming – And Some Are Already Here

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Fluffy and Spot travel the plant and gather data that can be synthesized into improvements in the production process, according to The Economist. That’s a big price tag, but it’s not so bad when one considers that doing that using humans to perform that kind of plant surveying work would cost roughly $300,000.

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FTC Launches Antitrust Probe Into Apple-Amazon Deal

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Bumstead was interviewed by FTC lawyers and an economist about the impact of the deal on his business. You just sort of tag on to an existing listing. They wanted to know how Amazon works, how eBay works,” Bumstead explained. “I I went into describing how a listing works on Amazon.

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Olympics Delay Will Spark Race To Recoup Sunk Costs

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Economists, reported AFP, have said that the country, already reeling from a declining economy, will see further economic pain. That price tag would be divvied up between Tokyo, the aforementioned organizing committee and the central government. The most immediate effects will be felt by the host country, Japan , of course.

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Amid Trucker Shortage, High Prices Loom

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Reported the Post : “Shipping costs have skyrocketed in the United States,” thus far into 2018, causing all sorts of other price tags to inflate. The shortage is in the thousands, Bob Costello, chief economist at the American Trucking Association, told the Post — to the tune of 51,000 drivers in 2017.

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