Slate Money - The Protection Money Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss:
The sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi
Replacing Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The political upheaval in Zimbabwe
In Slate Plus: We answer a few children’s economic questions for the podcast But Why.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello and welcome to the protection money edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:25.8 | It's been an interesting week. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm Felix Salmon & Fusion. |
| 0:30.7 | We have the core team here, Anna Shemansky and Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello. |
| 0:36.3 | And we are going to talk about, well, I don't know if it's, we're going to talk about |
| 0:42.6 | whether there has been a coup in Zimbabwe. |
| 0:46.6 | There's been a coup. |
| 0:47.6 | It's a coup. |
| 0:48.8 | Jordan, Jordan is team coup. |
| 0:51.3 | When you have someone in a beret and fatigues reading you news on your television, it's a |
| 0:56.0 | It might be a coup if. |
| 0:59.4 | So, yeah, it's been a while since we had a good old-fashioned military coup. |
| 1:03.6 | So we get to, you know, it's not every day that you get to turn on your weekly podcast and listen to people massacring the pronunciation |
| 1:12.1 | of the word hunter. |
| 1:13.6 | But we're going to try. |
| 1:14.6 | Wouldn't it be amazing, though, if instead of taking over, like, the TV stations, |
| 1:18.4 | they took over, like, the podcast stations for a coup? |
| 1:23.1 | The banter is so much different. |
| 1:26.1 | It's a much more relaxed coup. |
| 1:28.6 | I'm Michael Barbaro and this is military law. |
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