Slate Money: The Of Course, Of Course Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2014
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Slate Money, featuring Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of Columbia University and Slate's own Jordan Weissmann. This week: the state of business journalism, a hedge-fund billionaire's struggle against Herbalife, and the corporate income tax.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello and welcome to the of course edition of Slate Money, the weekly guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion and I'm coming to you this week from Fusion's global headquarters in Miami, Florida. |
| 0:21.6 | On the show this week, we are going to start with a segment idea from one of our listeners. |
| 0:26.9 | More on that in a minute, but Scott Means, are you out there? |
| 0:30.6 | Get ready. |
| 0:31.7 | That discussion will carry us nicely into a look at Herbalife and a quote-unquote death blow that a certain |
| 0:38.9 | steely-eyed hedge fund manager was supposed to deal it this week. And we'll also talk about |
| 0:45.3 | so-called inversion deals and whether we should just abolish the corporate income tax already. |
| 0:52.1 | And like we do every week, we'll close with our numbers lightning round. |
| 0:56.8 | But first, let me introduce our regular guests who are still in New York City. |
| 1:01.5 | Kathy O'Neill, head of the lead program for data journalism at Columbia University is the first. |
| 1:06.7 | Hi, Kathy. |
| 1:07.4 | What's your number this week? |
| 1:09.6 | Hi, Felix. |
| 1:10.1 | My number is $394,000. Hmm. What's your number this week? Hi, Felix. My number is 394,000. |
| 1:13.5 | Hmm. I like that number. |
| 1:15.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.4 | It's got a certain heftiness to it. |
| 1:18.4 | Yes. |
| 1:18.8 | I'll give that number a seven out of ten. |
| 1:22.3 | Wow. |
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