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Olympics Delay Will Spark Race To Recoup Sunk Costs

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That price tag would be divvied up between Tokyo, the aforementioned organizing committee and the central government. Depending on tourism to save the day (or at least the GDP) is a dicey strategy. Economists, reported AFP, have said that the country, already reeling from a declining economy, will see further economic pain.

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Euronet Prepares To Battle For MoneyGram

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For Ant Financial, the buy impetus may come down to the desire to expand beyond China geographically, which is no surprise given the slowing of that country’s once white-hot GDP growth (and with GDP growth comes the desire to spend more and transact more, and thus a clear benefit accrues to Ant). What’s in it for Euronet?

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. In World War II, we spend roughly 50% of GDP on the war effort. We need to spend roughly 50% of GDP on the climate crisis for several years sustained in order to actually avert it. Are you talking — WENGER: Half of GDP. WENGER: Yeah.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. 23% of world’s GDP and China’s 18%. JOHNSON: So if you have a client who says, I really want to, my daughter will say, I really want things that are pushing towards net-zero on carbon. China’s, what’s the US?

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

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. So we need the bottom of the pyramid to be rehabilitated and engaged in the economy to grow GDP by an extra 2% to 3% sustainably. You don’t do any dirty work. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Robert Koenigsberger

Barry Ritholtz

Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars. KOENIGSBERGER: Their GDP was $25 billion a year. This is 25% of the GDP of the country. You know, in the textbook, you know, per capita GDP, it’s certainly still classified as an emerging market country.

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Transcript: Angus Deaton

Barry Ritholtz

But it only costs half as much as the share of GDP 00:32:09 [Speaker Changed] D So that’s where I was gonna go. Tag on top of that for healthcare. Ultimately in Canada and the uk you’re paying for that through higher taxes. That’s right. You, 00:32:06 [Speaker Changed] You. ’cause there’s an $11,000 Right.