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Slate Money

Finance Blogger Reunion

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Investing

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by their fellow finance-blogging alum, Cardiff Garcia. Cardiff sheds some light on the current situation in Cuba, they discuss skewed incentives in investment banking, and the state of bookselling.  In the Plus segment: The Fed chair decision. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @s_m_i  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello! Welcome to the finance blogger reunion episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

0:21.0

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios formerly of the Week, I am Felix Salmon of Axios, formerly of the Economometer blog at Rubini Global Economics,

0:28.4

formerly of the market movers blog portfolio, formerly of of the I guess eponymous Felix salmon blog.

0:36.1

I didn't really have a name at Reuters. And I'm joined here by two of the most awesome

0:42.3

O.G. financial bloggers both from FD Alphaville, Stacy Marie-ishmail, of course, and

0:49.0

FT-Tilt, which was itself probably the greatest financial blog of all time and Cardiff Garcia

0:56.7

welcome.

0:57.7

Hey Felix you were quite the promiscuous blogger back in the day I got to say.

1:02.0

I mean he said he said the bar.

1:05.0

How many blog by like?

1:06.8

How many different places did you blog, Cardiff?

1:11.1

I think it was just F T

1:13.0

Alphaville with the occasional contribution to tilt.

1:15.0

I feel like I had an RGE monitor guest post like one time.

1:19.0

I mean I was discovered partly by Felix at Cardiff Garcia.com way back in the day but that wasn't a paid blogging

1:27.6

No, no, the best the best blogs are the unpaid blogs that was my job in the blogger's

1:32.8

series. I remember discovering Rolf Winkler and bringing him

1:36.2

into voiters.

1:37.2

You absolutely did. I think Rolf would 100% agree,

1:40.6

because I found Rolf through you, and so did many of us and now he has this incredible career.

1:45.9

So shout out to finance blogging.

1:47.8

Kud if you are not blogging anymore what are you doing now?

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