Slate Money - Enron 2
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss updates in the collapse of crypto exchange platform FTX and how the situation compares to past business downfalls. They also talk about Joan Didion’s estate sale.
In the Plus segment: the death of Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Enron 2 episode of Sleep Money, your guide to the Business and Finance |
| 0:20.3 | of the Week in which the guy who was in charge of dealing with bankrupt Enron |
| 0:28.5 | then became the guy who is now in charge of dealing with bankrupt FTX. His letter came out this week and I am |
| 0:35.6 | going to talk about it. I am Felix Hammond of Axios and I am going to talk about it |
| 0:38.7 | with Elizabeth Spires. Hello. And also Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:44.0 | We're going to talk about all of the other parallels, Lehman Brothers, We Work, Uber, I don't know, there on others, lots of parallels in terms of business |
| 0:57.8 | history of businesses going bust and trying to wonder like what were the implications |
| 1:02.2 | of that and what could the implications of |
| 1:03.8 | the FTX collapse be. We are going to talk about Joan Didion on her estate sale. We have |
| 1:09.7 | a slate plus on Elon Musk and the way he's tweeting all of his CEO decisions. |
| 1:15.6 | Is that a good idea? Find out on Slate Money. |
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| 1:55.0 | Okay, so for the second week running we have to talk about FTX and SBF because there has been so much more news than we had last week. |
| 2:07.8 | And I guess the place where we should start is probably the first day motion in bankruptcy court in Delaware, which didn't get |
| 2:17.0 | filed on the first day like it normally does. It took about a week for John Ray, who's the new |
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