Slate Money - The Hogmanay Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss:
•The economics of partying on New Years Eve in Times Square
•The risky side of derivatives trading
•Warren Buffett and predatory lending
Read about the Gaussian copula function in Felix's piece for Wired.
Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @Felix salmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
Podcast production by Zachary Dinerstein
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| 0:00.0 | Slate money is brought to you by Tax Act. |
| 0:02.6 | File simple, federal, and state returns for free by visiting Taxact.com slash slate. |
| 0:08.9 | Tax Act will guide you through every step of the process using your computer, tablet, or phone, |
| 0:13.6 | and get you the maximum refund guaranteed. |
| 0:16.7 | That's Taxact.com slash slate. |
| 0:20.0 | And by texture. The mobile app that lets you tap directly into the world's most popular |
| 0:24.5 | magazines anywhere using your phone or tablet. |
| 0:28.3 | Dive deeper into Vogue, People, Esquire Time, and hundreds more with interactive content |
| 0:33.9 | for a richer reading experience. |
| 0:36.2 | Right now, try Texter for free at texter.com |
| 0:39.5 | slash money. That's texture.com slash money. And by Mile IQ. If you're one of the 60 million |
| 0:47.1 | Americans who drive for work, then you know that your miles are your dollars. Every mile you don't log |
| 0:52.0 | is money that you're losing. Mile IQ is the only mileage tracker app |
| 0:55.8 | that detects logs and calculates your miles for you, ensuring that every mile is accounted for and no |
| 1:01.5 | dollars lost. Try Mile IQ for free today by texting Slate Money to 31996. That's Slate Money to 3196. |
| 1:12.7 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:20.8 | Hello, people. |
| 1:22.1 | Happy New Year. |
| 1:23.4 | It is 2016, and it's going to be an amazing year, isn't it, Kathy? |
| 1:27.3 | It is. It can only get better be an amazing year, isn't it? It is. |
| 1:27.9 | It can only get better. |
| 1:30.3 | Fantastic. |
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