Slate Money - The Momentous Tweet Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Tesla, a tweet-inspired diplomatic spat, and Indra Nooyi leaving PepsiCo on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski and the Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Rose.
In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, and Mathew discuss robot pizza and the coming robot apocalypse.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck.
Production by Max Jacobs and June Thomas.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the momentous tweets edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Felix Salmon. I am joined by Anna Shemansky and... |
| 0:26.2 | Hello? |
| 0:27.0 | Not by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post, who is sunning herself in somewhere much warmer |
| 0:34.6 | than where we are. Instead, and even more fabulously, to be honest, we have Matthew Rose of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:41.7 | Hello. |
| 0:42.3 | Matthew, what do you do at the Wall Street Journal? |
| 0:46.1 | It's a hard thing to explain. |
| 0:48.0 | Okay, so don't bother. |
| 0:50.2 | I edit stories. |
| 0:51.9 | Suffice to say that he works at the Wall Street Journal. He's reportedly quite clever. |
| 0:58.5 | So we're going to see about that on this show. |
| 1:02.4 | We are going to talk about the momentous tweet that was sent out by my ex-boss, |
| 1:09.9 | Christian Freeland, complaining about women getting arrested in Saudi |
| 1:14.7 | Arabia and a rather enormous and what's the word, not very proportional response that |
| 1:21.8 | Saudi Arabia had to that tweet. We are going to talk about PepsiCo, which no longer has a female CEO and probably |
| 1:30.7 | won't for the foreseeable future, much like the rest of the Fortune 500. Um, but obviously, because |
| 1:38.9 | this is the business and finance news of the week, we are going to talk about another momentous |
| 1:44.0 | tweet, which is the one |
| 1:45.9 | sent by Elon Musk in the middle of the trading day where he's like, I'm thinking of taking |
| 1:51.7 | Tesla private at $420 a share and funding is secured. And Matthew, would it be fair to say that in the wake of that all hell broke loose? |
| 2:04.0 | Yes. |
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