Slate Money - The Munchkin Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2016
⏱️ 36 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, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discus Trump’s economic team.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump's choice for Treasury
-Carrier whose $7 million tax break to keep jobs in state was celebrated by Trump
-Wilbur Ross, Billionaire investor Trump taps for Commerce Secretary
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Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
Production by Veralyn Williams.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Munchkin edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance |
| 0:18.4 | news of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. I'm joined as ever by |
| 0:24.5 | Kathy O'Neill, the author of Weapons of Math Destruction. Hi. And Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan |
| 0:32.9 | Weissman. Hello. Glad to be here. And this week's topics were pretty easy and obvious for us, because this was the week when Donald Trump basically rolled out his entire economic team, or at least the most important bits of it, specifically the Commerce Secretary, the Finance Minister, and, oh yeah, and he wound up doing |
| 0:57.2 | exactly what he said he would do on the campaign trail and saved a bunch of jobs in |
| 1:02.8 | Indiana. We're going to talk about all of this. Wait, Felix, you just referred to the Treasury |
| 1:06.6 | Secretary as the Finance Minister. How Euro can you get right now? He is the finance minister. |
| 1:11.9 | I know, but we're not sitting in the middle of Brussels right now. We're in America. This is |
| 1:15.9 | America. We're in Trump country. He's the Treasury Secretary. So, okay, so let's start with |
| 1:22.1 | the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Stephen Mnuchin, or whatever it is that you guys call him over here. |
| 1:30.7 | So, yeah, the joke is that, like, local newscasters were trying to pronounce his name, |
| 1:36.3 | and there was just a super real of them mispronouncing. And the best one by far was Stephen Munchkin. |
| 1:42.3 | And once you hear the Munchkin thing, it's really hard to unhear it. |
| 1:47.0 | It is, I went on various radio and TV shows to talk about this guy and broadcasters |
| 1:54.1 | care about how things are pronounced. |
| 1:56.5 | And I can tell you that officially the pronunciation is not minutian, it's minutian. |
| 2:03.0 | Like minutia. |
| 2:04.4 | As a wonderful email to Kai Rizzdahl once put it, the CH is soft as in champagne or charlatan. |
| 2:14.4 | Jesus. |
| 2:16.4 | On which note? |
| 2:18.4 | So, yeah, this guy is a second generation Google partner, Goldman Sachs partner. |
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