Slate Money - The Don't Be Evil Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon and special guest Melanie Hicken of CNN Money chat with co-hosts Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate about the secretly evil world of government debt collectors, not-so-evil employee pay raises at Walmart, and oversized valuations for an uber-evil car sharing service.This episode was supported by Stamps.com. Go to Stamps.com and click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and enter "SLATEMONEY" for a no-risk trial plus $110 bonus offer – including up to $55 free postage. And by Harry's razors. Go to Harrys.com now and Harry’s will give you $5 off if you type in my coupon code “slate money” with your first purchase.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Don't Be Evil edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance |
| 0:19.7 | news of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here as ever with Anna Schmanski hello and |
| 0:26.8 | Emily Peck of the Huffington Post and we are going to be talking about Google and whether it has become evil and |
| 0:35.8 | whether there's now a fight between its management and its staff over evil related |
| 0:40.8 | issues. We're going to talk about what's going on also workplace culture |
| 0:45.8 | wise in Netflix. We're going to talk about because Anna's here and we basically need to |
| 0:52.1 | throw her a fish every so often and we're going to talk to her about |
| 0:57.2 | leveraged loans and then if we if we have one segment on leverage loans she'll stick around for another few months, it's great. |
| 1:04.0 | But we will talk about leverage loans because they're kind of amazing what's going on with them right now. |
| 1:10.0 | And we are going to carve out a little bit of the intro to say many thanks to Lisa Marie |
| 1:18.3 | Furla because it was Lisa Marie of all people who emailed us to tell us to have Faisal Islam on the show last week. |
| 1:27.0 | And that is why we had Faisal Islam on the show last week. |
| 1:31.0 | And June Thomas, who basically runs podcasts for the entire |
| 1:35.8 | world or at least for Slate sent us a rare and special email saying oh my God you had a mancunian on obviously the |
| 1:46.6 | show was amazing because anytime you have a mancunian on the show is amazing |
| 1:51.0 | which is true so now we are on a search I guess we are still |
| 1:56.3 | searching for a suburbs person if you know a mancunian suburbs and then that would |
| 2:00.8 | that would really hit the |
| 2:02.8 | the sweet spot but we do have suggestions from you. Thank you for all of those. |
| 2:07.6 | They were very helpful and oh if you're a slate plus member we're going to talk about a 36 billion dollar tech acquisition, which is huge and kind of disappeared in the news cycle. |
| 2:20.0 | This is what happens when there are midterms. |
| 2:22.0 | In any case, we shall stop. This is what happens when they're midterms. |
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