An Economist Walks into a Brothel

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🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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A federal judge orders Elon Musk and the SEC to put on their “reasonableness pants." Tradeweb pops on its IPO. Amazon’s ad business gains on Google. And Burger King introduces an Impossible Whopper. Analysts Andy Cross and Jason Moser discuss these stories and weigh in on the latest from Constellation Brands, Disney, and Teladoc. Plus, Allison Schrager shares some insights from her book, An Economist Walks Into A Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk. Thanks to Grammarly for supporting The Motley Fool. For 20% off a Grammarly premium account, go to http://www.Grammarly.com/Fool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.3	From Fool Global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.
0:36.2	It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio this week's
0:39.4	Senior Analyst Jason Moser and Andy Cross. Good to see you as always, gentlemen.
0:42.9	Hey Chris.
0:43.9	We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street. We will dip into the full mail back and
0:47.0	as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.
0:50.1	But we begin this week with Amazon. Not Amazon, the retailer, not Amazon Web Services,
0:55.9	but Amazon advertising. Wall Street Journal reporting this week that the ad spend in the US
1:01.2	hit $212 billion last year. That's up nearly 10% from the year before.
1:06.3	But within that story about US advertising writ large, came the news that Amazon more
1:11.6	than doubled its ad revenue to roughly $6 billion. Andy, I know I shouldn't be surprised
1:18.7	by that. And yet I still am.
1:20.6	Yeah, there's been a lot of great conversation recently and articles written about the exploding
1:25.7	growth of Amazon's ad business. They are now by some estimates, the third largest advertising
1:30.7	player in the market behind Facebook and Google. Upwards of north of 10 to 11 million
1:36.1	dollars. So it's a significant player now in this space. As more and more of our ad searches
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