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There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

That's why we launched The Big Take.

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

to give you some space to think. I'm Wes Kasova. Each weekday I dig into one important story

and talk about why it matters. Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you listen.

This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest. Our first three-timer professor Scott

Galloway of NYU Stern. Where do I begin to describe Professor Galloway? I first invited him on the

show after I saw a YouTube video of him really describing for his student set NYU Stern School

of Business the forehorsement of the internet. He discusses everything from

Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook and the subsequent impact of all these companies and what

they have and where they're going and how they're affecting the rest of the world of finance,

of government and taxation, of technology, of employment. There's nobody like him. He just

choose the scenery. Everybody loved his previous two conversations. This one is very different. We

talk about his new book, The Four, which discusses those four companies. He has done work for most

of these companies on a consulting basis. Yet that doesn't stop him from really trashing them

when they deserve to be trashed about different things like what they're doing to jobs in America,

how they're impacting the tax base of the federal government. He calls on all of these companies,

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