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Odd Lots

How Online Dating Is Reshaping the Entire Economy

Odd Lots

Bloomberg

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4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

By this point, everybody knows that online dating is a massive phenomenon, reshaping the social habits of the young and the single. But perhaps people are still not appreciating the significance of it. On this week's podcast, we speak with Dan McMurtrie, a hedge fund manager, who has done significant research on the impact of online dating. Through his work, he has found huge potential ramifications in terms of family formation, economic development, commerce, and more.

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On December 4th and 5th, against the backdrop of the United Nations Climate Change Conference,

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battle against climate change. Register at Bloomberg Live.com slash B Green Radio. Hello and welcome to anotheracey Alaway.

0:45.0

Tracey, remember how you claimed on a recent episode of the

0:46.0

odd-lons podcast.

0:48.0

Tracy, remember how you claimed on a recent episode of the podcast that you're a millennial? I knew you were going to start with this again. Yeah, I knew you were going to start with this again.

0:58.0

Yeah, I did

1:03.2

it up to even by your own definition of being a millennial which is someone that had

1:06.3

Facebook while they were in college I am in fact a millennial

1:10.1

although I am an older one I admit.

1:13.0

Okay, did you ever, but here's the thing, did you ever do online dating?

1:19.0

No, is this another, is this a new definition of millennials that you're going to start using?

1:25.0

Kind of. I mean, don't necessarily, but I do think that's pretty important

1:30.0

and the fact that you never did online dating and neither did I it kind of makes us both not really millennials

1:36.4

I think I mean I'm definitely not one but I also kind of think maybe that's another thing where I'm like

1:41.7

That is a pretty big thing in the world that really divides people

1:46.4

by a few years wouldn't you say?

1:48.4

Yeah I think so and I have to admit I have absolutely zero personal experience with online dating although I don't

1:57.0

know about you but I've always been sort of curious about it and whenever I meet up with my single friends like I would sometimes borrow their

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