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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week Felix, Emily, and Anna discuss Larry and Sergey, aka The Boys, stepping away from Alphabet, Uber’s big safety report and Silver Lake’s investment in Manchester City soccer.

And in the Slate Plus segment: Argentina.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:11.0

Welcome to the ABC edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the week.

0:20.6

We have so much material to deal with this week.

0:24.5

We are going to talk about ABC.X.Y. Z, aka Alphabet, aka Google.

0:31.0

We are going to talk about Uber.

0:34.3

We are going to talk about Manchester City Football Club.

0:43.0

We, by the way, is me, Felix Salmon of Axios, and Emily Pack of Huffpost.

0:43.5

Hello.

0:46.5

And Anna Schumansky of Breaking Views. Hello.

0:57.3

And we are going to talk about not only all of these things, but also in a lively slate-lust discussion, poor Argentina being picked on by Donald Trump and what it has to do with the price of soybeans, which I promise is more interesting than

1:03.6

it sounds, especially if you manage to make it through the lively numbers round where we will

1:10.0

talk about the greatest TV ad that has appeared on Twitter

1:14.1

in the past three weeks.

1:16.2

It's all coming up on Slate Money.

1:21.3

Now I know my ABCs.

1:24.2

The official URL, if you want to find alphabet on the internet, is ABC.xyZ.

1:32.9

That makes sense.

1:33.6

That's where their blog is.

1:35.4

Or it's also at Google.org.

1:37.1

But Google.comlog is just for Google.

1:39.1

ABC.xyZ is for the parent company, which is alphabet, because they're all quirky.

1:45.6

And they put out letters from Larry and Sergei, who are always referred to by their first names, and we're all on first

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