Slate Money - Omnishambles
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix explains this whole Brexit mess, Emily talks about Amazon’s irresponsible delivery polices and Anna finally gets to talk about Argentina.
Plus: Walmart vs guns.
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Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Omnishambles edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.2 | I am a Brit. |
| 0:23.6 | Britain is what is known as omnischambling off a cliff right now. |
| 0:28.3 | We are going to talk all about that. |
| 0:30.6 | We are going to talk about Amazon and it's huge, marauding, massive contract delivery, |
| 0:41.5 | not quite employees who are running people over on the streets |
| 0:45.1 | and causing death and destruction in their wake. |
| 0:48.5 | We are going to talk about the Fernandez-Fennandez ticket. |
| 0:53.2 | You get to find out all about the Fernandez-Fennandez ticket from the get to find out all about the Fernandez-Fennandez |
| 0:55.7 | ticket from the one and only and the Schemansky, who's right here in the studio, and also from |
| 1:00.9 | Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. We are even going to talk about Walmart in Slate Plus. So stay |
| 1:07.6 | tuned for all of that coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:11.9 | So let's start with Brexit because I have been getting so many questions, like just |
| 1:18.5 | non-news people at Axios come up to me and say, Felix, you need to explain Brexit to me. |
| 1:23.5 | I've been getting like literally more media requests than ever, I think, in my entire life. |
| 1:29.6 | Can you please come on American media and explain what's going on with Brexit? |
| 1:33.8 | I mean, can you explain what's going on with Brexit? |
| 1:35.8 | Because it's become incomprehensible to most people, I think even to people who live there. |
| 1:41.0 | The general rule of thumb is no one understands what is going on, up to |
| 1:44.7 | and including Boris Johnson. So if you don't understand what's going on, don't feel bad about |
| 1:50.8 | this, don't feel stupid. No one really understands what's going on. It makes basically no sense. |
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