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of the participants, not of Reuters News. Uber's road obstacles are helping rival lift gain some speed.

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a conversation among breaking views columnists about the ups and downs of finance.

I'm your host, Jennifer Sabah, and my co-host, Anthony Curry, is away on a well-deserved vacation.

All right, first up, let's talk about Uber and the fact it's been a crash test dummy of fallacies of late. And what that means for

its rival lift, joining me here today in New York is Breaking Views columnist Rob Siren.

Rob, thank you for joining me. Uber. Where do we start? Where do we even start? It's like every day there's some piece of news about an executive leaving or just it just

it doesn't stop.

So what does this mean for a $70 billion company?

Well, the problem is that Uber is valued as if it's going to take over the taxi market

and more globally. And the problem is that it's going to take over the taxi market and more globally.

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