Episode 15 (Part 2 of 2): Banks, fintech, cryptocurrency, capitalism, and other topics in Economics | Interview with Allen Cruz

24/07/2021 43 min Temporada 1 Episodio 15

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Episode Synopsis

About the guest: Allen Cruz is an Economics graduate from UP Diliman. He is currently working as a Foreign Exchange officer in Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and he has previous work experiences as a banker in UnionBank and as a management trainee for an oil company.
In the second part of this episode we talked about:

The role of banks in the economy
The different services that banks offer and that we should know about
The thing you can now do with online banking
Digital banks vs traditional banks
What cryptocurrency is, and what we are investing in when we invest in cryptocurrency
Why capitalism has a bad reputation
Alternatives to capitalism, and the spectrum between a purely government-controlled economy and a purely private-controlled economy
Why pursue Economics as a course in college

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