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Do investors care about fighting systemic racism?
Jun 10, 2020
Episode 211

Do investors care about fighting systemic racism?

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IBM’s stock price slumped this week after the company announced it would get out of the facial recognition business for fear that it could lead to racist, abusive surveillance. So what do we make of that? We’ll talk about this disconnect between our national moment of racial reckoning and Wall Street on today’s Whadda Ya Wanna Know Wednesday.

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