Slate Money - The Oh Sh*t Edition
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman, summarize where we are post election.
Topics discussed on today’s show:
Why markets didn’t crash Trump’s proposed stimulus plan and how it might affect the country.This year’s polling data and why predictions were so far off.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello, and welcome to the oh shit edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and |
| 0:18.2 | finance news of the week, which you know what that news is after a long |
| 0:24.4 | and gruesome election campaign during which we did an unbelievably good job of never |
| 0:32.8 | mentioning this guy's name. |
| 0:34.7 | Maybe too good a job. |
| 0:36.2 | Because you didn't want us to. |
| 0:37.4 | And we, you know, it felt good to have a little Trump-free zone. I don't regret it. I don't regret it. No, it was a, I think we gave everyone a much-desired break in their week. So, yeah. So we are now, you know, unavoidably, I'm afraid, going to have to talk about the phrase which I still find quite |
| 0:57.2 | hard to get out of my mouth, President Donald Trump. |
| 1:00.2 | Voldemort has arrived. |
| 1:02.4 | Anyway, yes, I am Felix Hamilton Fusion. |
| 1:05.7 | I have here, Kathy O'Neill, the author of Weapons of Math Destruction. |
| 1:09.7 | Hi. |
| 1:10.2 | And Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman. |
| 1:13.4 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:14.3 | And we are going to talk about some policy stuff because, you know, I think the election is over. |
| 1:22.5 | But we are also going to talk about the polls and how they were so wrong. |
| 1:27.6 | And we are going to talk, I think, about markets. |
| 1:31.2 | Jordan. |
| 1:32.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.2 | What happened? |
| 1:34.2 | Like, so, okay, so this is, this is where I start on this one, is that Justin Walthus was |
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