Slate Money - Keeping Up With MacKenzie
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski discuss Massachusetts regulators’ complaint against the Robinhood app, how MacKenzie Scott is giving away billions, and all the One Percenters leaving big cities.
In the Slate Plus segment: Currency manipulation.Â
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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Keeping Up with McKenzie episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Felix Simon of Axios. |
| 0:24.1 | Anna Shemansky is here from Breaking Views. |
| 0:27.1 | Hello. |
| 0:28.6 | Emily Peck is here from Huffpost. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello. |
| 0:31.8 | We are going to keep up with McKenzie Scott, the multi-billionaire who is transforming philanthropy. |
| 0:39.8 | We're going to talk a bit about what she's been up to over the past few months. |
| 0:44.4 | We are also going to talk about Robin Hood and whether it is breaking the law and whether they are a good thing or a bad thing. |
| 0:51.1 | We're going to talk about all of these rich people and Oracle and Elliott and possibly |
| 0:56.5 | even Goldman Sachs asset management, all exodusing away from high tax states and towards |
| 1:02.4 | low tax states and whether that's a good thing. |
| 1:04.3 | And what that means, we have a Slate Plus segment about currency manipulation in Switzerland. |
| 1:10.5 | Oh, yes yes we do. |
| 1:11.6 | It's all coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:15.8 | So Robin Hood was the not very proud recipient of not one but two major lawsuits this week. |
| 1:24.6 | The SEC one is settled for $65 million. Basically, the SEC accused it of doing |
| 1:31.5 | various and various things, and they said, here's $65 million, we won't do it again. And that one |
| 1:37.8 | seems like it was a bit of a slap on the wrist to me because Robin Hood is raising money at $11 billion |
| 1:44.1 | valuations and has more money |
| 1:45.7 | than God and they move fast and break things. And this is what they do is they get things wrong and |
| 1:51.4 | then they say, oops, our bad, we won't do it again. And then they may or may not pay a fine. |
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