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Corporations are People Too

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Yinka Adegoke of Rest of World joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about President Joe Biden’s plan to raise corporate taxes, the U.S. housing bubble, and the rise of fintech in emerging markets. In the Plus segment: Is child care infrastructure? Don’t pick up! The Rise and Fall of a Massive Industry Based on Missed Calls by By Atul Bhattarai for Rest of World Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the corporations are people two.

0:17.0

episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

0:21.5

My name is Felix Salmon. I work at Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck.

0:26.0

Hello. And we have a special guest this week, not for the first time. Welcome back.

0:32.0

Yinka Adeg, okay, but you are no longer where you were.

0:35.0

You have a new employer.

0:38.0

Yes, I am at Rest of the World.

0:40.0

Thank you for having me again.

0:41.0

What or who is Rest of World?

0:44.3

The Rest of World is a publication

0:46.7

which covers the impact of global technology

0:49.2

around the world.

0:50.0

We cover everything from big tech and Silicon Valley's impact in far reaches

0:56.4

of the universe of the globe.

0:58.4

But it's also how local companies are coming up with technology ideas.

1:02.0

There can actually be things that more advanced economies can learn from.

1:06.5

It's a worthy and awesome publication. Go check that one out. We are going to be talking a bunch about actually what's going on in Africa, the investments

1:15.9

that are being made there, especially in financial services, and whether they're entirely a good thing.

1:21.6

And we're going to talk about the housing bubble, and whether that's a good thing. We're going to talk about the housing bubble and whether that's a good thing.

1:25.4

spoiler alert, probably not. And we of course are going to talk about the big Joe Biden

1:32.3

tax plan. He wants to increase corporate tax rates is that a good thing

1:36.9

Find out on this week's slate money and also maple syrup just put that out there we're also also maple syrup, just putting that out there.

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