Slate Money - The Soft Power Edition
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Laurel Touby, founder of Mediabistro, discuss: The eccentric billionaire owner of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son.How Swift cut North Korean banks off from the global financial system.If State Street’s plan to place more women in executive roles is legit.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello! |
| 0:10.6 | And welcome to the soft power edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance |
| 0:17.7 | news of the week. |
| 0:19.8 | This week was the week of International Women's Day. |
| 0:24.1 | So we're going to talk about international women with an international woman. |
| 0:29.4 | I am Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 0:31.7 | I have, with me in the studio, Mr. Jordan Weissman of Slate. |
| 0:35.3 | Hello, Felix. |
| 0:36.3 | And International Woman of Mystery, Laurel, Toby, who is, well, I mean, you're kind of |
| 0:42.3 | mysterious, really, but Laurel, back in the day, for those of us who've been in New York for |
| 0:48.6 | longer than we care to admit, Laurel was once upon a time famous for Feather Bowers. |
| 0:52.9 | Now she's more of a early stage investor entrepreneur type person. |
| 0:58.1 | Feathering my bed. |
| 0:59.5 | Ooh, oh, very clever. So welcome Laurel. |
| 1:02.4 | Hi, thanks Felix for having me on the show. |
| 1:05.1 | Laurel is also a good friend of Panoply. We're trying to bring we're trying to bring in the Toby fine, like, you know, family as much as we can into the panoply network. If you want to listen to her husband on Inc. Uncensored, you can do that too, plug. And then if you, if you, if you, if you, if you, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're, if you're really clever, you can work out which of the income-sensored people is Laurel's husband. |
| 1:30.4 | But anyway, yeah, we are going to talk about this little girl who popped up at the bottom of Wall Street earlier this week, thanks to some two and a half trillion dollar global asset manager. |
| 1:43.8 | We are going to talk about soft power and the way that the Americans are trying to crack down |
| 1:51.8 | on places they don't like, like Iran and North Korea by using various fines and sanctions |
| 1:59.5 | and embargoes and whatnot, which is kind of interesting because |
| 2:03.1 | they've been quite active about that this week. And I think a good place to start is soft bank. |
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