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The Uber mobile phone app. (Getty Images)
by Barry Ritholtz | Jul 11, 2017 | Opinion
We sometimes take for granted that which is right before our collective noses. Creative destruction caused by technology is so rampant that it is practically a cliche. It is easy to ignore not only the speed at which disruption caused by technology is affecting...
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The beginning of an explanation. Photographer: Mike Theiss/National Geographic/Getty Images
by Barry Ritholtz | Jun 20, 2017 | Opinion
One of the conundrums of the recovery from the financial crisis is how varied it is and the diverse perceptions of it by different people in different parts of the US. All of this reminds me of John Godfrey Saxe’s wonderful poem, “The Blind Men and the Elephant.” In...