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10 Weekend Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Kanye and Adidas: Money, Misconduct and the Price of Appeasement : A year ago, after producing hundreds of shoe styles and billions of dollars together, Adidas broke with Kanye West as he made antisemitic and other offensive public comments.

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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.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

Vox ) • Investors Are Hungry for Risk—and Holding Record Cash Sums : Some analysts see the investor balances in money-market funds as a bullish sign for stocks and bonds. It’s a good time to be a worker and a bad time to be a consumer — the problem is most people are both. ( I found their families. (

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Paysafe Readies $9 Billion IPO Via SPAC

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The $9 billion price tag would make this one of the larger SPAC mergers of the year, behind the MultiPlan merger with Churchill Capital Plan for $11 billion and the pending United Wholesale Mortgage $16 billion deal with Gores Holding IV, Bloomberg reported. Earlier this year, Paysafe debuted its Skrill Money Transfer service, letting U.S.

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A Corporate Finance Approach To High-Net-Worth Individuals

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According to Anneke Stender, executive vice president at accounting and software solutions provider TAG , this is a growing segment at a time when new, younger millionaires are continuing to emerge from places like Silicon Valley. “There is a specific need for these families,” she told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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Paytm To Sell, Recharge eToll Payment Tags In India 

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Our efforts are well-aligned with the government’s mission to ensure vehicles are equipped with toll tags,” said Satish Kumar Gupta, managing director of Paytm Payments Bank, in a statement. FASTags are prepaid rechargeable tags for toll collection that allow automatic payment deduction from a transponder affixed on a vehicle’s windshield.

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Deem’s New Software Aims To Boost Corporate Travel Booking Services

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The software will attempt to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with managing travel and saving money. SMBs will also have the capability to save money through the partnership, the company noted. According to the release, the new preferred rates through Rise will help SMBs negotiate with suppliers for better rates.