Slate Money - Finance Blogger Reunion
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🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by their fellow finance-blogging alum, Cardiff Garcia. Cardiff sheds some light on the current situation in Cuba, they discuss skewed incentives in investment banking, and the state of bookselling.
In the Plus segment: The Fed chair decision.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the finance blogger reunion episode of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:18.5 | Business and Finance News of the Week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, |
| 0:23.2 | formerly of the Economometer blog, Rubini Global Economics, formerly of the Market Movers |
| 0:30.6 | blog, portfolio, formerly of the, I guess, eponymous Felix Salmon blog. I didn't really have a |
| 0:36.8 | name at Reuters. And I'm joined here by two of the, I guess, eponymous Felix Salmon blogger didn't really have a name at Reuters. |
| 0:37.9 | And I'm joined here by two of the most awesome OG financial bloggers, both from FD Alphaville, |
| 0:46.6 | Stacey Marie Ishmael, of course, and FTilt, which was itself probably the greatest financial |
| 0:53.2 | blog of all time. |
| 0:55.0 | And Cardiff Garcia, welcome. |
| 0:58.1 | Hey, Felix, you were quite the promiscuous blogger back in the day, I got to say. |
| 1:02.1 | I mean, he set the bar. |
| 1:04.9 | How many blog byline? |
| 1:06.6 | How many different places did you blog, Cardiff? |
| 1:10.7 | I think it was just F.T. Alphaville with the occasional contribution to Tilt. |
| 1:15.4 | I feel like I had an RGE monitor guest post like one time. |
| 1:21.1 | I mean, I was discovered partly by Felix at Cardiff Garcia.com way back in the day, but that |
| 1:26.6 | wasn't a paid blogging. |
| 1:27.6 | No, no, no, the best blogs are the unpaid blogs. That was my job in the blogosphere. I remember |
| 1:33.9 | discovering Rolf Winkler and bringing him into Voices. You absolutely did. I think Rolf would |
| 1:39.3 | 100% agree, because I found Ralph through you, and so did did many of us and now he has this incredible |
| 1:45.0 | career. So shout out to finance blogging. Cardiff, you are not blogging anymore. What are you doing now? |
| 1:51.4 | That's right. I'm the host of a new podcast that launches on August 12th called The New Bazaar, |
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