Felix Hates Polls

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🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about spoiled customers acting out, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva and the scandal plaguing her job position, and a new poll finding that a third of households making less than $50,000 in the U.S. lost or spent their savings during the pandemic. In the Plus segment: The Coinbase proposal for an entirely new regulation system for cryptocurrency. Mentioned In the show: “Almost 20% of U.S. Households Lost Entire Savings During Covid” by Simone Silvan “Unruly customers threaten economic recovery” by Hope King “IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva survives China scandal: What you need to know” by Bjarke Smith-Meyer “Policy goals for crypto market regulation” by FTX Research “Operational Framework of the Digital Asset Policy Proposal” by GitHub Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Felix Hates Polls edition of Slate Money,
0:16.8	your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:21.3	I am Emily Peck of Funrise. I am here with Stacy Marie Ishmael of
0:26.7	Bloomberg. Hello. And of course I am here with your host, your actual host, Felix Salmon, the
0:35.6	hater of Poles, Felix?
0:37.5	We are all hosts here, Emily.
0:41.4	Are you going to say your trademark greetings?
0:43.0	Hello, hello everyone.
0:45.0	We had to try and work out whether Emily could do that because I'm not going to call this the
0:49.5	Felix H. Bowles editions.
0:51.0	That would be like weirdly self-referential.
0:54.2	But we are going to talk about me hating polls.
0:56.2	We are.
0:56.9	And Emily did a great job.
0:58.6	We're going to talk about Felix hating polls.
1:00.6	We are going to talk about customers behaving very, very badly and try and figure out
1:06.7	exactly why that is. We are going to talk about the drama at the IMF, which I initially thought was boring, but you'll come to see is actually
1:16.2	fascinating and highly political.
1:18.9	We are going to talk about the survey thing, as I and in Plus today we're getting into
1:24.8	crypto again because now we have our resident expert, Stacy, who can tell us
1:30.3	everything we need to know about coin base and regulation all coming up on
1:34.7	slate money.
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