Fed cuts interest rates (and banks lobby for deregulation), Facebook’s Libra fades… Dorsey’s next move and moments of happiness

Pivot

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News Commentary, Tech News, News, Technology

4.2 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Kara and Scott talk about the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts and big banks asking for deregulation. They talk through how COVID-19 may halt the economy. They discuss Facebook's redesign of Libra -- their cryptocurrency and how other coins are faring in the face of COVID-19. In Listener Mail we hear from G/O Media reporter Dhruv Mehrotra about his recent investigation into how Better Help proliferates user data (find the journalists on Twitter @dmehro and @molly_o). In predictions, Kara and Scott disagree about how Dorsey's future with Twitter will play out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Pivot from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:06.2	I'm Cara Swisher.
0:07.2	And I'm Scott Galloway and Cara, I am more joyous than the CEO of Lysol or Puril right now.
0:13.6	You know why?
0:14.6	There's not a CEO.
0:15.6	Because Cara, I'm feeling the Jomentom.
0:19.8	Are you feeling it?
0:20.8	No, not really.
0:21.8	Do you feel the Jomentom?
0:22.8	I don't have an opinion.
0:24.8	I mad that all the women are out of the race as usual.
0:28.0	And by the way, by the way, Lysol's ignored the fact that I said Joe Biden was going to
0:32.2	leave the race without having won a single state.
0:34.2	Let's just ignore that for the time being.
0:36.0	You did say that.
0:37.0	I'm just going to make that point is you were not a Jomentom person.
0:39.0	You will love Mike Bloomberg.
0:40.0	All men on Joe.
0:41.0	No, no, no, you were so capricious.
0:44.6	It's ridiculous.
0:45.6	You were first you were with Beto and I was like, that guy is like a man boy and he's not
0:49.7	going to make it.
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