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June 6, 2020 63 mins

From The Plains Of Nineveh To The Streets Of Beirut: How ChangeInEx Plans To Unlock Global Labor And Creativity


Stephen Hollingshead

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenhollingshead/


ChangeInEx

https://www.changeinex.com/


MERS (MERSCORP Holdings, Inc.) (1:35)

https://www.mersinc.org/about

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181004005185/en/Intercontinental-Exchange-Completes-Acquisition-MERS


Ankawa Refugee Camp(1:50) (Story of Gali)

https://english.ankawa.com/?p=15949


Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (5:58)

https://www.mturk.com/worker


Patriot Act (4:30, 22:30)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act


Bank Secrecy Act (4:30)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act


Blockchain (7:25)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blockchain.asp


Biometrics (7:53)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics


Juan Zarate (10:00) - Treasury's War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare 

https://www.amazon.com/Treasurys-War-Unleashing-Financial-Warfare-ebook/dp/B00DFM5C3U/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=juan+zarate&qid=1591373210&sr=8-1


M-PESA (28:50)

https://www.vodafone.com/what-we-do/services/m-pesa


SIM Swapping (32:00)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam


Special Economic Zones 

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sez.asp


MNO - (32:30) Mobile Network Operator (When discussing M-Pesa)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_network_operator


LEBANON (36:45)

Refugee Crisis 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrians_in_Lebanon

Liquidity Crisis
https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/march-2020/lebanon-liquidity-crisis

Political Crisis
https://www.dw.com/en/lebanons-political-and-economic-meltdown/a-47179661

Lollars - (42:00)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lollar


SWIFT 

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050515/how-swift-system-works.asp


Fractional Reserve Banking (42:30)

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebanking.asp


David Birch (47:00)

https://www.dgwbirch.com/biography/


Hernando DeSoto (49:00) - Economist “The Bell Jar”

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_(economist)


Schenzhen, China’s Special Economic Zone (53:15)

https://www.britannica.com/place/Shenzhen


Rwanda (55:00)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda


Paul Kagame - President of Rwanda (55:15)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kagame


Hutus & Tutsis (55:20)

https://www.thoughtco.com/location-of-conflict-tutsis-and-hutus-3554918


Smart Africa Alliance (55:35)

https://smartafrica.org/


Venezuela’s Maduro Diet (56:30)

https://www.csis.org/analysis/maduro-diet-food-v-freedom-venezuela

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