Taking Stock

Greenwich Associates' Kevin McPartland says technology signals a change in banking jobs, not a loss. Storm recovery and cleanup companies are making billions off of more frequent natural disasters, Bloomberg's Prashant Gopal says. Lionel Laurent, a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering finance, discusses his skepticism of "hyped-up millennial alternative" asset classes like Bitcoin and cannabis. Finally, Bloomberg Gadfly's Shira Ovide explains why people might well pay $1,000 for the new iPhone and not think twice about it.