Money Is Made-Up

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Goldstein of Planet Money joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to talk about his book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing and explain the varied history of this thing we call “money”. In the Slate Plus segment: A deeper dive into Jacob’s wonky Numbers Round number. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:12.0	Hello. Welcome to the Money is Made Up episode of Slate Money,
0:19.0	Your Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:22.0	A very, very special episode this week I am
0:26.2	Felix salmon of Axios I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost hello I'm here with
0:32.2	Anna Schmanski of Breaking Views.
0:34.0	Hello.
0:35.0	But most excitingly, I am here with
0:38.0	Jacob Goldstein of Planet Money.
0:40.0	Jacob, hi there.
0:42.0	Hello everybody.
0:43.0	Your podcast probably needs no introduction to this crowd,
0:46.0	but just in case it does,
0:48.0	tell me about your podcast.
0:50.0	My podcast is called Planet Money,
0:51.0	and my book is called Money,
0:52.8	the true story of a made-up thing.
0:54.0	You are totally on brand here.
0:56.1	We are gonna have a whole show about money,
0:58.3	which is something weirdly after,
1:01.2	I'm not sure where we're up to like six years of this show we have never actually spent an episode talking about money
1:06.2	It's about time if you ask me that we had a episode of slate money talking about money
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