Slate Money - The Shaky Ground Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The financial collapse ten years later, how it brought on fracking, and a look at the future of the markets on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Emily Peck, and Bethany McLean.
In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, Emily and Bethany discuss McLean’s other other book about Enron.
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeckProduction by Max Jacobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the shaky ground edition of Slate Money, your guide for the business and finance news of the decade, I think. We're going to take a big |
| 0:24.2 | picture view of things right now. In case you hadn't noticed, which I'm sure you had, it is |
| 0:29.9 | the 10th anniversary of Lehman Brothers going bust. And we, by we, I mean me, Felix Hammond of Axios and Anna Shemansky. |
| 0:39.5 | Hello. |
| 0:39.8 | And Emily Peck of the Washington Post are... |
| 0:43.5 | Washington Post. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm just kidding. |
| 0:44.9 | And Emily Beck of the Huffington Post, which rhymes. |
| 0:48.7 | And Emily Peck of the Huffington Post... |
| 0:51.0 | Hello. |
| 0:51.7 | ...are joined by the expert on all things financial crisis. |
| 0:56.9 | You literally wrote the book on it. |
| 0:58.7 | It was called Shaky Ground 3. |
| 1:01.3 | No, Shaky Ground 2. |
| 1:03.3 | All the Devils are here. |
| 1:04.8 | This is the one and only Bethany McLean. |
| 1:06.9 | Welcome back. |
| 1:07.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:09.8 | Bethany wrote four books, and the running joke is that all called Shaky Ground. |
| 1:15.0 | The first one was about Enron, which famously collapsed. |
| 1:18.5 | The second one was about the entire global financial system, which famously collapsed. |
| 1:23.1 | The third one was about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which famously collapsed. |
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