The concept of by now, pay later, it really took off over the last couple of years. Now we're in economic head winds, regulators have taken note. And lo and behold, as we'll talk with esma here, there's good old fashioned debt problems even when you're supposedly paying for for easy payments.
Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News P&I Reporter Esmé Deprez explain why the buy now, pay later industry is about to meet its first big test. Tom Inglesby, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, provides an update on the Covid and monkeypox outbreaks. Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Airlines Analyst George Ferguson breaks down the JetBlue deal to buy Spirit for $3.8 billion. And we Drive to the Close with James Cakmak, Technology Analyst at Clockwise Capital.
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