Slate Money - The Scuttlebutt Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2016
⏱️ 49 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 Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss the scuttlebutt at Wal-Mart, Uber, and in Massachusetts law.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-Why does Wal-Mart reportedly want to buy Jet.com?
-Uber will merge with Didi Chuxing, China’s biggest domestic ride-sharing company.
- It’s officially illegal in Massachusetts to be asked about your salary at a job interview.
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Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
Production by Veralyn Williams.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello! |
| 0:10.1 | Jesus. |
| 0:11.4 | Woo! |
| 0:12.0 | Isn't it a good week, listeners? |
| 0:14.9 | The heat has broken, the summer has begun. |
| 0:18.2 | We are lying in our hammocks and we are enjoying the month of August. |
| 0:22.4 | And this is Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week with me, |
| 0:30.9 | Felix Salmoner Fusion, with Jordan Wiseman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate and with |
| 0:37.2 | Kathy O'Neill, the author of |
| 0:40.0 | Weapons of Math Destruction, available in all good bookstores in about a month. |
| 0:45.9 | A little bit less, yeah. |
| 0:47.3 | So, pre-order it on Amazon. |
| 0:49.7 | Leave it a five-star review even though you haven't read it. |
| 0:52.7 | Please do. |
| 0:54.6 | We are going to be talking about all manner of awesome things. |
| 0:58.0 | We're going to talk about Uber raising the white flag in China, the largest and most promising |
| 1:06.2 | car sharing market in the world. |
| 1:08.3 | We are going to be talking about how employers in Massachusetts |
| 1:13.6 | can no longer ask you how much you're earning. And we are going to talk about the interesting |
| 1:23.2 | story of jet.com, which some people might have heard of. |
| 1:28.3 | Felix, I don't want to interrupt you, but I don't think you explain to the listeners what the edition is this week. |
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