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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Slate Money hosts discuss what a split with the Royal Family means for Meghan and Harry financially, how Trump’s wine tariff will mess with the industry, and index funds and voting.

Plus: Is war good for the stock market?

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Megxit edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance

0:18.8

news of the week.

0:20.1

I'm Felix, Amon of Axios.

0:21.9

I'm joined by Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views.

0:25.1

Hello.

0:25.7

And by our resident royal expert, Emily Peck of Huffington Post.

0:30.5

Hello.

0:31.0

Or as it's now called the British Royal Post.

0:34.5

It's been dominating Huffington Post for the past week.

0:37.6

We, of course, are going to talk about Megxit, which is the exit of...

0:41.7

Megan Markle and her hubby.

0:43.9

And her hubby, who's Ginger, from the UK Royal Family. We're going to talk about that.

0:49.8

We're going to talk about index funds and whether they should vote all of the shares that they own.

0:56.5

We are also, because this is my show, and also because Emily wanted to talk about it,

1:03.1

we are also going to talk about wine and answer the question of whether there is such a thing

1:07.5

as an Australian Burgundy. We might need to find out if tariffs come into effect.

1:13.6

All of that and a slate plus about whether war is good for the stock market.

1:19.3

Coming up on slate money.

1:23.5

Okay, we have to start with the most important business and finance news of the week, which is clearly...

1:29.3

It's Megxit.

1:30.9

It's Megxit.

1:31.8

Which, if you haven't been following this, it's Prince Harry and Megan Markle making a shocking announcement.

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