Investing in Trucking & the Coming War on Credit Cards
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🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Motley Fool Asset Management’s Bill Barker analyzes the trucking industry (including the shortage of drivers) and how it affects different industries. Plus, he shares investing takeaways from his recent trip to Singapore and Hong Kong, the near-ubiquity of Alipay, and the coming war on credit cards.
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| 0:19.4 | It's Wednesday, June 6th. |
| 0:23.4 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio |
| 0:26.9 | from Motley Fool Asset Management, Bill Barker. |
| 0:29.6 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:31.1 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:32.3 | You made it back from Singapore. I did a couple weeks ago. It's |
| 0:36.7 | hard to crack the lineup of your show. We're going to get to your business takeaways from Singapore, but I'll just say right now, |
| 0:46.3 | I don't think I've ever seen you more messed up from sleep deprivation as I did those first couple of days you were back. |
| 0:55.0 | Because when you got back initially I was like, oh hey let's get you on the podcast and after like I don't know 30 seconds of talking to you I just just silently thought to myself, oh no, he can't go in the studio. |
| 1:06.2 | He's... |
| 1:07.2 | He had a lobotomy. |
| 1:08.2 | Yeah, something happened to him. |
| 1:09.9 | That wouldn't have been funny? |
| 1:11.1 | No, not at all. |
| 1:13.0 | Let's start with something that actually got brought up on yesterday's episode with Twitter |
| 1:19.8 | being tapped to join the S&P 500 and there was a listener question about the amount of |
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