Slate Money - The Ballpoint Pen Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss:
- The mysterious history of the Bic Cristal Ballpoint pen - Bond investing in a rising-rate environment- Hedge fund founder Anthony Scaramucci’s new White House role
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Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello, and welcome to the Bullpoint Pen edition of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:17.8 | Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:19.4 | I am Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 0:22.8 | How many ballpoint pens do I own a lot? How many ballpoint pens do you? Although I'm not even sure |
| 0:28.2 | that ownership is really a concept which applies properly to ballpoint bands. Maybe the only thing |
| 0:32.8 | left that people can like freely pass to each other. And like do you have a pen? Yes. Oh, |
| 0:37.8 | keep it. You know, like it's used to be true of cigarettes. You could use a bum a cigarette, |
| 0:41.1 | but now you can't do that because they're like $15 each. But ballpoint pens, you can still do it. |
| 0:45.2 | Yeah, it's a wonderfully free, anarchic, like all of the, all of your anarchist friends basically want everything to be like bullpoint pens. We are so |
| 0:56.9 | excited about ballpoint pens that we haven't even managed to introduce |
| 1:00.3 | the episode. We're launching into a discussion of them. So, |
| 1:03.9 | okay, so Kathy O'Neill is the author of Weapons of Math Destruction. Jordan |
| 1:08.5 | Weissman. Hello, Jordan. Hi. |
| 1:11.1 | Is the Moneybox Coal List at Slate. |
| 1:14.1 | Kathy is going to be talking to us about bond investing, which is actually kind of fascinating. |
| 1:19.1 | And Jordan is going to be talking to us about the one and only, the unique, the amazing, the rather oleagenous Anthony Scaramucci. |
| 1:30.8 | Is that a swear? |
| 1:31.9 | What does that mean? |
| 1:32.8 | Oily. |
| 1:33.5 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:34.2 | Oilly. |
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