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Podcast: How to Lend Money to Strangers
Episode: Familiar but digital, with Rohit Bhargava (BOMTech)
Description: When I lived in Hong Kong, which was not all that long ago, there were these rather complicated-looking ATMs around town, covered with instructions to help you correctly feed a passbook into them without the staples causing problems. I never actually saw a passbook in the flesh, but they were explained to me as a paper-based statement of record that you updated as needed, like an automated receipt stamp after a significant deposit or withdrawal, rather than the statements the bank sent to you on month end. Since I had internet banking, I never looked any deeper. But not...