Pancake Brains

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

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🗓️ 26 October 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week Felix, Emily, and Anna discuss the latest news on WeWork, Emily's article on the so-called leadership and empowerment seminar at Ernst & Young that told women their brains were like pancakes, among other indignities, and Felix’s recent review of Darkness by Design: The Hidden Power in Global Capital Markets by Walter Mattli. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Pancake Brains edition of Slate Money, your guide to the
0:18.4	Business and Finance News of the Week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost.
0:25.4	Hello.
0:26.1	Who has a big scoop this week all about how women's brains are like pancakes. My brain is more like a
0:33.8	colander to be honest. People, if things come through and it just
0:36.8	comes straight out the other side, I retain nothing.
0:39.9	But here to help me learn stuff as ever is Anna Shimansky of breaking views.
0:45.0	Hello.
0:47.0	We are going to be talking about We Work because that is the big news of the week what is going on with We Work and it's shareholder
0:56.4	Soft Bank its biggest shareholder is now going to be 80% shareholder of We Work.
1:01.7	We are going to talk about Emily's big scoop about
1:06.2	pancake brains. You learned this week from Ernst & Young that women's brains
1:11.2	like pancakes, whereas men's brains are like waffles.
1:14.3	That is correct and I feel like...
1:15.3	So this is going to be a hungry-making edition of slate money.
1:21.6	We are also going to talk about my book review and
1:24.4	about this book called Darkness By Design by this chap called Walter Matley and
1:28.6	the theory he has which I think I'm kind of convinced by that the stock market all went to
1:34.5	shit after 2005.
1:36.6	That and a Slate Plus segment on Chile all coming up on on slate money.
1:44.0	This episode is brought to you by Shopify.
1:46.0	Looking to start a side hustle or become your own boss.
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