Slate Money - The Hedge Funds Behaving Badly Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker staff writer and author of Black Edge, discuss the turmoil at Bridgewater Management, how a hedge funder tried to take down Herbalife, and the insider trading allegations covered in Black Edge.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.2 | Hello, and welcome to the hedge funds behaving badly episode of sleep money. |
| 0:19.3 | Is it an edition or an episode? I can never remember. |
| 0:21.3 | Edition. |
| 0:21.9 | An addition. |
| 0:22.9 | It's the hedge funds behaving badly addition. |
| 0:26.3 | The reason we are going to talk about hedge funds, hedge funds and hedge funds is because we have |
| 0:30.7 | the most special guest in the world right here. |
| 0:34.7 | I am Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm joined by Jordan Weissman of Slate. I am also |
| 0:41.1 | joined by the chief feature writer at Portfolio Rap magazine, Sheila Kalatka. Wait, that's not your |
| 0:50.3 | job anymore. That's several jobs ago. Sheila and I used to work at Portfolio back in a million years ago. |
| 0:56.9 | Pre-financial crisis. |
| 0:58.5 | Pre-financial crisis. |
| 0:59.6 | A different world. |
| 1:01.1 | And then you went on to much grander things. |
| 1:04.1 | As did you. |
| 1:05.0 | So what are you up to now? |
| 1:07.6 | I have been a staff writer at The New Yorker since July. |
| 1:11.6 | And prior to that, I was at Bloomberg Business Week for several years. |
| 1:15.8 | And you recently, as in the past couple of weeks, came out in the New Yorker with a fascinating story about one of our favorite hedge fund managers, Mr. Bill Ackman. So we are |
| 1:28.5 | definitely going to talk about that. And not only are you an expert on Bill Ackman, but |
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