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Slate Money

Everything is Concrete

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss Robinhood’s FINRA fine, the use and longevity of concrete following the tragic collapse of a Miami condo building, and AirBnB’s secretive (and well-funded) violent crime cover-ups. In the Plus segment: Krispy Kreme.  Mentioned in the show: “Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away,” by Olivia Carville “Convenience > Compassion,” by Framing “No, You Can’t Recycle a Bowling Ball (But People Sure Keep Trying)” by Eleanor Cummins for Curbed Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.2

Hello and welcome to the Everything is Concrete episode of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

0:21.2

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

0:23.0

I'm here with Stacy Marie-ishmail.

0:25.8

Hello.

0:26.8

And we are here with Emily Peck of Fundrise.

0:30.6

You have a job, Emily.

0:32.3

Have a job, Felix and and Stacy besides this one.

0:35.1

Contributing to those good jobs numbers. I have a new job I am the new content

0:40.7

director at Funrise and I'm going to be launching something that

0:44.0

people will want to read possibly in the future. Stay tuned. Are you one of the

0:48.2

850,000 jobs that were created in June? No, I'm sadly not one of those.

0:54.9

I started in May actually, but I kind of like kept it quiet

0:58.1

for kind of like a soft launch.

1:01.4

I didn't want to bring the news to anyone until I was sure that I was

1:05.6

into it but I'm into it. Congratulations on the fundraise job Emily. We have all

1:10.6

manner of fun things this week. I get to whip out a bunch of the random pile of concrete and brutalism statistics that I've had sitting around in the base of my skull for years and I knew it would come in handy one day and there's a news hook now with a tragic news hook it has to be said.

1:29.0

Definitely tragic.

1:30.0

So we are going to talk about concrete. We are going to talk about

1:34.6

Air B&B and B and if they're evil and when they became evil. But yeah, we are going

1:40.3

to kick off by talking about Robin Hood, which is another company which seems maybe less than good.

1:47.0

So all of that coming up and there is a lot of positive fun slate plus action in a slate plus segment on donuts so get your

1:55.2

slate plus membership only cost you an introductory dollar.

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