Slate Money - The Scary White People Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political analyst and emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, discuss: The future of the European Union in the face of rising populismIceland’s lifting of capital controlsHow horror movie studio Blumhouse’s release strategy is reaping big rewardsCheck out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello, and welcome to the scary white people edition of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:17.2 | Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. I am joined as ever by |
| 0:22.8 | Jordan Weissman of Slate. Hello, Felix. And oh my God, what a week it has been. We have the |
| 0:31.5 | crazy budget from Donald Trump, which we are not going to talk about. We have the Fed hike, |
| 0:38.8 | which we are not going to talk about. There's so many things we could talk about and we're not going to talk about. We have the Fed hike, which we are not going to talk about. |
| 0:43.0 | There's so many things we could talk about and we're not going to talk about because it's been a jam packed week. We are going to talk about this week. Get Out, the movie, which is a fascinating |
| 0:51.3 | little economic thing, and you're going to want to stick around for that. We are going to talk about my favorite country, which is a fascinating little economic thing, and you're going to want to stick around for that. |
| 0:55.2 | We are going to talk about my favorite country, which is Iceland. |
| 0:59.3 | I went there once, and it's my favorite country. |
| 1:02.5 | But most excitingly, we have the one and only Anna Shemansky coming on the show for the first time. |
| 1:11.2 | Hello. Hello. |
| 1:12.2 | Hello, Anna. |
| 1:13.3 | Anna is a refugee from various fee structures. |
| 1:19.4 | Whether she was a hedge fund or a private equity shop, we can maybe describe and discuss |
| 1:24.8 | some future thing. |
| 1:26.2 | But Anna knows everything there is to know about debt, basically, and international markets and pretty much everything in the world. |
| 1:34.7 | And so the fact that Anna is on the show gives us all the excuse we need to talk about the big thing that we haven't talked about, basically on the show for a while, which is like, oh, my God, is the euro going to survive? |
| 1:49.0 | Yes. |
| 1:49.5 | And it turns out it probably is. |
| 1:51.9 | It is going to survive? |
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