Slate Money - The Cryonics Special Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Slate Money nerds out about sovereign debt in the past (Ecuador, Argentina, Greece), present (Venezuela, Puerto Rico), and future (Italy) with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Mitu Gulati, and Lee Buchheit.
In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, Lee, and Mitu discuss the contentious court case between Russia and Ukraine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the cryonics special edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of |
| 0:22.4 | Axios. And there's only one thing I really care about in this world, which is sovereign debt. |
| 0:29.5 | We all know this. Longtime listeners of Slate Money will know that I'm obsessed with all things |
| 0:37.0 | suffering debt, especially Argentina. |
| 0:39.6 | Anna Shamansky and I, when we first met, we basically just nerded out about sovereign debt for how long? |
| 0:46.1 | It was like over an hour. |
| 0:47.7 | I was trying to talk to Anna's drone work out whether like she would be a good host on Slate Money. |
| 0:52.6 | And I totally failed to do that |
| 0:54.6 | because all we did was no doubt about suffering. Tuna bonds. Tuna bonds. We have to talk about |
| 1:00.1 | tuna bonds. So this is, I'm very, very excited this week because not only is Mitu Galati |
| 1:08.2 | of Duke University here in the studio with us. |
| 1:11.5 | Mittu, introduce yourself. |
| 1:13.0 | What's your claim to fame? |
| 1:15.6 | I tag along with Lee and you since we met, I think, 17, 18 years ago in the context of Ecuador. |
| 1:25.4 | And I've tagged along with the two of you and every sovereign |
| 1:27.6 | debt restructuring since. And wait, who is this Lee person? |
| 1:31.6 | This Lee person is the person who has basically brought pain and suffering to creditors all |
| 1:42.0 | over the world, although I think he would say in a highly benevolent |
| 1:47.4 | fashion for now three decades. |
| 1:50.1 | Mr. Liebukai, the doyen of the suffering debt world, you're pretty much the senior |
| 1:58.2 | partner at Cleary Gottlieb? |
| 1:59.9 | A senior partner at Cleary Gottlieb? A senior partner at Cleary Gottlieb. |
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