How to Be Less Stupid About Money, With Felix Salmon

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🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Felix Salmon, senior editor at Fusion and co-host of Slate’s Money podcast, is our guest this week. We discuss banks debt, credit cards and other things you think are totally boring but we somehow make wildly entertaining. Plus, we've got a wine recommendation for when you're feeling flush. You can find the show notes and all episodes at http://lifehacker.com/theshow See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:10.4	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.
1:13.0	And I'm Andy Orrne, an editor with Lifehacker.
1:15.4	And this week we're talking to Financial Wiz, Felix Salmon.
1:18.7	I have so much money because I'm a whiz.
1:22.3	Felix is a senior editor at Fusion, which is sort of a sister or cousin site to LifeHacker.
1:28.5	He used to be a finance blogger for Reuters, and he's also the co-host of Slate's Money
1:33.1	podcast. And most importantly, he is in possession of a plummy English accent that makes him
1:38.5	sound very smart. So he's the perfect person to be imparting financial advice, or to play
1:43.5	the villain in a Disney movie.
1:45.0	It's true. You can listen to me and say, oh, I must. Don't trust that guy. He's got that
1:50.5	accent which makes me want to believe him, and you shouldn't, but you should believe me because
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