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Megxit

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Slate Money hosts discuss what a split with the Royal Family means for Meghan and Harry financially, how Trump’s wine tariff will mess with the industry, and index funds and voting. Plus: Is war good for the stock market? 'The Hidden Dangers of the Great Index Fund Takeover' By David McLaughlin and Annie Massa 'She Was a Star of New York Real Estate, but Her Life Story Was a Lie' by Julie Satow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Meg's it edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance

0:18.8

news of the week.

0:20.0

I'm Felix, I'm an of Axios.

0:21.9

I'm joined by Anna Shimanski of Breaking Views

0:25.0

Hello? And by our resident Royal Expert Emily Peck of Huffington Post.

0:30.0

Hello.

0:31.0

Or as it's now called the, you know, British Royal Post, it's been dominating

0:35.6

Huffington Post for the past week. We of course are going to talk about Meg's it, which is

0:40.3

the exit of... Megan Markle and her hubby who's ginger from the UK Royal Family

0:47.9

we're gonna we're gonna talk about that we're gonna talk about index funds and whether they should vote all of the shares that they own.

0:56.6

We are also, because this is my show, and also because Emily wanted to talk about it, we are also going to talk about wine and answer the question of whether there is such a thing as an Australian burgundy.

1:09.5

We might need to find out if Taras come into effect.

1:13.6

All of that and a Slate Plus about where the war is good for the stock market coming up on Slate Money. money.

1:23.0

Okay, we have to start with the most important business and finance news of the week,

1:28.0

which is clearly...

1:30.0

It's mexit.

1:31.0

It's mexit.

1:32.0

Which, if you haven't been following this, it's Prince Harry and Megan Marco making a shocking announcement.

1:39.1

This is not my characterization, the shocking part.

1:41.1

This is the universal conventional wisdom shocking

1:43.9

announcement on Wednesday via their Instagram feed that they're stepping back

1:48.8

from their duties as Royals and they are going to be planning on being financially

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