Slate Money - Speaking of Terrifying...
Slate News
Slate Podcasts
4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The Slate Money hosts discuss such terrifying topics as facial recognition technology, the coronavirus, and Australian bushfires.
Plus: SmileDirectClub.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | This ad-free podcast is part of your Slate Plus membership. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello, welcome to the speaking ofifying Edition of Slate Money, |
| 0:21.7 | your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:26.7 | Anna Shemansky is here from Breaking Views. |
| 0:28.7 | Hello. |
| 0:29.3 | Emily Pack is here from HuffPose. |
| 0:31.1 | Hello. |
| 0:31.9 | We are going to talk about many terrifying things. |
| 0:37.3 | There are terrified people who are terrified of... |
| 0:41.3 | Fires. Fires. Disease. A bad orthotumption. |
| 0:47.3 | Face recognition. This is going to be a particularly dystopian edition. We're going to talk about what |
| 0:55.1 | CNBC's |
| 0:55.9 | calls in its Chiron the mystery virus, which as far as I can make out has no mystery about it at all. Coronavirus, we know exactly what the virus is. We know where it is. We know how it spreads, but it's scarier if you call it a mystery virus, right? So we're going to talk about the virus and how bad it is. We're going to talk about |
| 1:12.7 | the bushfires in Australia and It's scarier if you call it a mystery virus, right? So we're going to talk about the virus and how bad it is. |
| 1:12.0 | We're going to talk about the bushfires in Australia and why people are giving money to try and help out, whether they're doing any good. |
| 1:19.0 | We're going to talk about Clearview, which is a terrifying company. |
| 1:23.9 | And much more. |
| 1:24.9 | We're going to talk about Smile Direct Club in Slate Plus. All that coming up on |
| 1:30.2 | Slate Money. So let's start with coronavirus because it's the most newsy, according to Emily Bagg. |
| 1:37.8 | I just got a news alert about it right just now. It's literally in the news at this moment. |
| 1:44.1 | So I feel like every so often there's a sort of disease, trendy, highly infectious |
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