Slate Money - How Neoliberalism Scammed America
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by legal scholar Mehrsa Baradaran, author of The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America. Mehrsa explains the roots of the neoliberalism movement and how the myth of free market made the American economy more oppressive, especially against black and brown people. Also: A misogynistic party culture has been revealed at the FDIC, and small banks are feeling the economic pinch. In the Plus segment: The California wildfires weren’t caused by Jewish space lasers — but there was malfeasance behind the scenes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Slate Money. |
| 0:15.0 | You're going to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Felix Simon of Axios, |
| 0:20.0 | with Elizabeth Spires, it's New York Times. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello. |
| 0:23.0 | With Emily Peck of Axios Markets. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello Felix. |
| 0:27.0 | Make sure that you're subscribed. |
| 0:29.0 | And oh my God, do we have an amazing show this week? |
| 0:32.0 | We have the most fun but also probably the most wonkish |
| 0:36.1 | show that we've had in a long time with the one and only Mersebaradaran. |
| 0:41.6 | Merse welcome back. Thank yourittel, welcome back. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you so much for having me back. |
| 0:45.0 | You are one of our favorite guests, if not our absolute favorite guests on this show. |
| 0:50.0 | Every time you come on you drop just astonishing amounts of knowledge, but introduce yourself, who are you? |
| 0:56.0 | I'm a Marce Abradar. I'm a law professor, and I believe that Slate Money was my first podcast with my first book, and I came to offices in Brooklyn and it was such a fun time. |
| 1:06.0 | I remember like sitting there being like, oh my gosh, like if writing a book is getting to talk to people |
| 1:11.1 | like this, then I'm going to do more books so I'm so |
| 1:13.2 | happy that I'm back. So you're you're now on book three right? Yes. So what was |
| 1:19.4 | book one what was book two but most importantly what is book three book one was how the other |
| 1:23.5 | half banks and your subscribers can go probably in your archives we talked about |
| 1:27.3 | it there about you know postal banking and all of that and we talked a lot about |
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