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Slate Money - The Bet the Farm Edition

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Felix Salmon of Fusion, political risk consultant Anna Szymanski, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss:

-       Passive investing

-       Driscoll’s strawberries

-       The banana marke

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Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Twitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann

Production by Daniel Schroeder


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:10.3

Hello, and welcome to the Bet the Farm edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of a lovely late August week. We would normally

0:27.2

around this time do a rosé edition, but we've done that a couple of times. And what goes better

0:33.2

with rosé than fruit.

0:40.6

So this is going to be the fruit edition.

0:43.6

We are going to talk not only about bananas,

0:47.7

but also and especially about strawberries.

0:50.1

He's not even kidding, but that's actually what we're talking about.

0:51.9

It's really true.

0:53.3

It is officially late August. Yes.

0:53.7

It's late August and we are having a fruit bowl.

0:57.4

It's actually, we are doing our own little slate money fruit salad here.

1:02.0

It's going to be delicious.

1:04.1

It's going to be full of antioxidants.

1:07.4

Antioxidants.

1:08.3

Vitamin C.

1:09.4

Yeah.

1:10.2

And maybe squeeze some lemon on top so it doesn't go bad. I don't know. You squeeze lemon on your strawberries? I don't know about it. No, no. Strawberry is what you want to do is a little, a couple teaspoons of granulated sugar. Yeah, that's if your strawberries suck. That's anyone. No, no. As my grandfather always used to say, he's not doing it for the taste.

1:31.5

He's doing it for the taste.

1:31.5

He's doing it for the crunch.

1:33.3

Interesting.

1:34.1

Okay.

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