Slate Money - The Onanism Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of the upcoming, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Josh Barro, Senior Editor at Business Insider, discuss hedge funds, declining US productivity, and technological innovations for vaginas.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:Why are hedge fund returns stagnating?Why has US productivity declined for the last three quarters?New innovations in vagina technology.

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Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @jbarro

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.2	Hello, and welcome to the Onanism edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:19.3	We have a particularly narcissistic and masturbatory set of
0:26.3	topics today. And amazingly, they don't involve media people talking about the media. So you have
0:32.7	that to look forward to an entire show of no one talking about the media. I am Felix Salmon of Fusion.
0:40.2	I am joined, as always, by Kathy O'Neill, the author of Weapons of Math Destruction,
0:46.0	available in All Good Bookstores soon.
0:48.7	Hello, Felix.
0:49.7	Hello, Kathy.
0:50.8	And Jordan Wiseman, being on holiday and escaping the swamp that is New York City has been
0:58.2	replaced by someone much better. Hello. Say hi. Hi, Felix. This is Josh Barrow. This is the
1:05.4	Josh Barrow. He is a senior editor, business insider, and generally just a person on the internet who says clever things. I like that. I'm going to go with the Josh Barrow. The Josh Barrow. I'm not just Josh Barrow. Yeah, you have now, you know, you're not just any old like, you know, Barrow anymore. You're just, you're the Josh Barrow. You know, actually, the unfortunate thing about the internet is I've learned there is one other Josh Barrow. he lives in Arizona. So technically I'm not the Josh Barrow. You know, actually, the unfortunate thing about the internet is I've learned there is one other Josh Barrow.
1:28.4	He lives in Arizona.
1:29.7	So technically, I'm not the Josh Barrow.
1:31.5	You're a Josh Barrow. I'm a Josh Barrow. Wait a second. There's only one other person with your name? It's a very rare last name, actually. There's no W. There are very few Felix Salmon. Did I ever tell you that I went to a dentist once and there were three Catherine O'Neils?
1:43.1	And they had to figure out who I was.
1:44.4	Like with appointments on the same day?
1:46.0	Same dentist.
1:47.5	Not the same. you that I went to a dentist once and there were three Catherine O'Neils and they had to figure out who I was.
1:44.4	Like with appointments on the same day?
1:46.0	The same dentist.
1:47.4	Not the same day.
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