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Slate Money: …And My Lollipop

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 51 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: Axios Markets Newsletter “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 Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the and my lollipop episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business

0:20.9

and finance news of the week.

0:23.0

I'm Felix Amelib Axios, I'm here with Emily Peck, also of Axios.

0:28.5

Hello.

0:29.6

Hello.

0:30.5

Emily, we have an awesome special guest here.

0:33.8

Hi, great.

0:34.8

Rangin Roy, introduce yourself.

0:37.3

Who are you?

0:38.5

Hi, I'm Rangin Roy.

0:40.2

I write the margins newsletter on sub-stack where we talk about technology and business.

0:45.9

And you had a neoliberal man crush on Bob Rubin in the early 2000s.

0:53.6

We are going to admit that in today's episode.

0:56.1

I'm ashamed to say it.

0:58.9

We're going to talk about that.

1:00.3

We're going to talk about Robert Rubin and his $12 billion acquisition of Banamex in Mexico

1:07.2

and what became of that.

1:09.0

We are going to talk about Wordal, because of course we're going to talk about Wordal.

1:12.8

Everyone is talking about Wordal and it's awesome.

1:15.2

We are going to have a Slate Plus where we talk about Citadel and how it's going to become

1:20.8

cryptoified.

1:21.8

But mainly we are going to talk about, or initially at least, we're going to talk about

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