Slate Money - The Hothouse Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman breakdown how things are heating up with the HFC deal, proposed NYC Airbnb regulations, and the Volcker Rule.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-The hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) deal to phase down global climate-warming
-The proposed Airbnb crack downs on New York City hosts
-How a Goldman Sachs trader can make $100 million in the Volcker Rule era
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Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.1 | Hello, and welcome to the Hot House edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the author of Weapons of Math Destruction. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello. |
| 0:26.5 | See what she did there. |
| 0:27.9 | And also Jordan Wiseman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello, y'all. |
| 0:33.6 | And we are going to be talking about Airbnb which is doing may or may not be doing |
| 0:41.1 | interesting things in new york city we are going to be talking about Goldman sacks the great |
| 0:47.4 | vampire squid and their um proprietary trading and or market making and whether there's a difference and the Volker Rule and |
| 0:55.1 | all manner of sexy stuff thereabouts. But first, I want to talk about hydrofluorocarbons. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, say that 10 times fast. That is a sexy, sexy phrase. |
| 1:09.7 | Hydrofluorocarbons, well, I mean, we can call them HFCs. |
| 1:13.9 | Okay, let's do it. |
| 1:14.5 | That's easier. |
| 1:15.7 | The world gathered in Kigali in Rwanda last week and hashed out. |
| 1:21.9 | Well, it's kind of interesting. |
| 1:23.9 | So you guys remember back in the day, I don't know, I'm an old, Jordan's probably too young to remember this. There was this big scare over the thing called the hole in the ozone layer. No, I remember. That's like actually the first environmental issue I can kind of recall from like my youth. That was like, I'm pretty sure there must have been like a teenage media turtles. For you, that was like the equivalent of how I like, trained to get under my desk in the case of a nuclear holocaust. |
| 1:47.6 | Yeah, Jordan was just trained to put on an extra layer of sunscreen. |
| 1:50.4 | Yeah, there had to be like some Nickelodeon PSA or something about it back in the day. |
| 1:54.6 | So what happened? |
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