Rihanna for World Bank President
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers explain why the president of the World Bank is stepping down, and throw out some guesses of who might replace him. They also discuss the train derailment in Ohio, and the influx of subpar online advertisements.
In the Plus segment: How should Felix market his upcoming book?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome! Hello welcome to the |
| 0:15.4 | to the Riana for President episode of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:20.4 | business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with |
| 0:25.8 | Emily Peck, also of Axios. Hello, hello. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires. |
| 0:31.2 | Hello. I feel like with the title of this show I've already given away one of the punchlines in the show, |
| 0:37.2 | which is we're going to start by talking about the leadership vacuum at the World Bank. |
| 0:41.7 | David Malpass has stepped down. We're going to talk about who could possibly replace him. |
| 0:46.5 | And then we're going to talk about something completely different, which is the derailment in Ohio. |
| 0:53.0 | But then we're going to talk about ads |
| 0:56.3 | and the value of advertising and the value of publicity |
| 0:59.4 | and we're somehow going to talk about |
| 1:01.0 | Riana and the Super Bowl, and we are going to bring it full circle |
| 1:05.3 | and come to the genius idea that Riana should be the next president of the World Bank, which |
| 1:11.0 | would be awesome, I think. |
| 1:12.6 | It's all coming up on slate money. |
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