Literally Making Money

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, Slate Money talk about Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, the merits of upzoning and the Beyond Meat IPO. And in the Slate Plus segment: The billionaire who bought Sotheby’s. Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello! Welcome to the Literally Making Money edition of Slate Money,
0:18.0	Your Guide to the Business and Finance
0:20.0	News of the Week.
0:21.0	My name is Felix Salmon.
0:22.0	I am the Chief Financial My name is Felix Salmon. I am the chief financial
0:23.9	correspondent at Axios. I am here with Emily Peck who has some equally grand
0:28.9	title at the Huffington Post. Senior reporter. There you go. I can get a chief in there though.
0:34.0	You should get a chief.
0:35.0	And we are here with Chief Anna Schmanski.
0:38.0	Yes.
0:39.0	It's an honorific with her.
0:41.0	We just call her chief.
0:42.0	We are going to talk about up zoning today. We're going to talk
0:45.3	about why Americans seem to be so resistant to optimizing the use of the land
0:52.0	upon which they live.
0:54.0	We are going to talk about Beyond Meat and various other IPOs which are doing really well and ask ourselves,
1:00.0	what makes Beyond Meat so special and so appealing?
1:03.6	P protein.
1:05.0	This was also a reference to a certain piece of English pop art
1:10.0	which we will reference in the slate plus, which is diving into is Libra, which is this brand new cryptocurrency announced by Facebook and various
1:28.1	other members of a consortium and they want us all to be buying and selling and spending.
1:33.4	Libra, are we going to be doing this?
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