Slate Money - The Pisco Sour Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2016
⏱️ 41 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 get saucy.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-French hottie, and rogue trader, Jérôme Kerviel can do no wrong.
-Peruvians are pretty good at vulture funds.
-Scotland wants to make it a little harder for chavs to get their cheap booze.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Pisco Sour edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm Felix Salmon, a fusion. |
| 0:18.9 | I am joined as ever by Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:23.7 | Hello, Felix. |
| 0:24.8 | And also by international business class traveler Kathy O'Neill, |
| 0:29.2 | who's been jetting off to Paris and hanging out with Monica Lewinsky |
| 0:33.6 | and generally being fabulous. |
| 0:36.4 | Fabulous. |
| 0:36.9 | That's the right word. Veal and foie gras. I confess. Wait, so did you hang with Monica? Well, we went to the same dinner at the Louvre, but I didn't actually sit at her table. You're not besties? Not yet. I'm heartbroken. So we are not going to talk about Monica Lewinsky since we haven't been talking to her. |
| 0:55.7 | I did like her talk. |
| 0:57.2 | Oh, she gave a good talk. Was it about bullying? |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.4 | We are going to talk about some bullies. |
| 1:03.0 | There's a segue. |
| 1:03.9 | We are going to talk about Grammacy of hedge fund in Connecticut, which is trying to bully the Peruvian government into paying |
| 1:12.1 | it $1.6 billion. |
| 1:15.3 | We are also going to talk about Chavs, who are the English equivalent of, well, what's the |
| 1:23.2 | American translation of Chab? |
| 1:24.9 | I think just like a drunk-ass bro would be the kind of... |
| 1:28.3 | We're going to talk about this thing that exists in Scotland, and I can definitely have... |
| 1:33.3 | I have first-hand experience of this, which is drunk people. |
| 1:38.9 | And the Scots have decided they're going to do something Pigovian about it. |
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