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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Bitcoin Busts, Payments Get Faster And The Eyes Have It

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Aside from a few complaints from those with glasses who needed a little extra help getting it to work exactly as advertised, consumers seem to feel as though it is a much more reliable and safer way to authenticate themselves via the mobile phone. Jet.com is not profitable and has no clear path to profits, critics say.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

So I think that resiliency piece, never giving up, never giving in, redefining, Barry, success as going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm, I think that’s everything. And like every business, they want revenue and they’d like to have a surplus profit. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional.

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Transcript: Colin Camerer on Neuroeconomics

Barry Ritholtz

Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And there was people, Physics didn’t have, people, psychology didn’t have math, economics was kind of the right mix. The math doesn’t math. That was too abstract. Yeah, I’m gonna vote.

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Transcript: Erika Ayers Badan, Barstool Sports

Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz : Now, if I remember correctly, late nineties cracks in the facade were already showing of, you know, the, the monolithic radio, TV advertising world. Big advertisers would never give Barstool Sports a look the way they do now. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

And I was a math nerd as a kid. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. But if, if it has a history of not being profitable, you you really want to exclude that. So I took that. That was real money.

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Transcript: Peter Borish

Barry Ritholtz

.” RITHOLTZ: So people also should realize, for those of you who’ve never traded futures, it’s not like options where essentially you could put up your losses in advance and all they could do is go to zero. RITHOLTZ: Put up your losses in advance. And so it’s one of these things that math works.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay.