Slate Money - …And My Lollipop
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Ranjan Roy of Margins talk about the death of ZIRP (a zero-interest rate policy) and what that means for the future; Felix’s glee about the sale of Citi Bank’s Mexican unit, Banamex; and the puzzle game sweeping the Internet.
In the Plus segment: Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities gets big investment from crypto.
Mentioned In the Episode:
“America’s labor shortage is bigger than the pandemic” by Emily Peck
“Buy ‘Floki’: A cryptocurrency inspired by Elon Musk’s dog is making an ad push in London” by Carla Mozee
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the and my lollipop episode of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:20.5 | business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Felixham and I'm here with Emily Peck also of Axios. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello, hi. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello. Emily, we have an awesome special guest here. |
| 0:34.0 | I agree. |
| 0:34.9 | Ranjan Roy. |
| 0:36.4 | Introduce yourself, who are you? |
| 0:38.5 | Hi, I'm Ron John Roy. |
| 0:40.2 | I write the Margin's newsletter on sub-stack, where we talk about technology and business. |
| 0:45.5 | And you had a neoliberal man crush on Bob Rubin in the early 2000s. |
| 0:53.4 | We are going to admit that in today's episode. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm ashamed to say it. |
| 0:59.0 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 1:00.3 | We're going to talk about Robert Rubin and his 12 billion dollar acquisition of Banamex in Mexico and what became of that. |
| 1:09.0 | We are going to talk about Wordle because of course we're going to talk about Wordle. |
| 1:12.8 | Everyone is talking about Wordle and it's awesome. |
| 1:15.0 | We are going to have a slate plus where we talk about Citidell |
| 1:19.0 | and how it's going to become cryptoified. |
| 1:22.3 | But mainly we are going to talk about, or initially at least, we're going to talk |
| 1:26.2 | about ZERP and the end thereof and is this the end of ZERP? It's a big thing, it's a fun thing, you should listen to it. It's all coming up on |
| 1:36.7 | slate money. This episode is brought to you by Revolute. |
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