Slate Money - The Peer Pressure Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss loans and investments.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-There's trouble at the Lending Club.
-Google pulls all payday loans ads.
-Why public pensions are still investing in hedge funds.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is brought to you by Texture, the mobile app that gives you full access to more than 150 of the world's most popular magazines, anytime, using your phone or tablet. |
| 0:11.7 | Read Vogue, People, Esquire, Time, and hundreds more, from back issues to the one currently on the newsstand. |
| 0:19.2 | Right now, try Texture for free at texture.com slash |
| 0:23.4 | slate money. And by ZipRecruiter. With ZipRecruiter, you can post your job to more than 100 |
| 0:30.1 | job sites with a single click and an interface that's easy to use. And right now, you can try it for free. |
| 0:36.3 | Go to ZipRecruiter.com slash Slate Money. And right now, you can try it for free. Go to ziprecruiter.com slash slate money. |
| 0:41.1 | And by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. |
| 0:47.0 | All Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period. |
| 0:52.0 | Get $50 towards any mattress purchased by visiting casper.com slash slate money and using the |
| 0:58.3 | promo code Slate Money. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello and welcome to the peer pressure edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 1:17.0 | My name is Felix Salmon of Fusion, and I am joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org. |
| 1:27.0 | Hello. |
| 1:27.8 | As well as Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman. |
| 1:31.8 | You're looking ravishing this morning, Felix. |
| 1:33.9 | I'm looking awesome this morning. |
| 1:36.4 | Pretty and pink. |
| 1:37.6 | I'm just, you guys are really missing out when you're listening to this. |
| 1:41.6 | He's wearing a very sexy short sleeve button down. |
| 1:44.2 | Let me tell you. |
| 1:44.5 | We are going to be talking this week about all manner of sexy things. |
| 1:49.7 | We're going to talk about whether companies can really sort of take public policy into their own hands. |
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