Slate Money - The Spinning Wheels Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2017
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss: - The auto industry as an indicator of a slowing economy
- Artificial intelligence as the next big innovation
Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon,@Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder. --Felix Salmon is a senior editor at Fusion.--Anna Szymanski is an emerging markets expert and senior strategy officer at a political risk startup.--Jordan Weissmann is Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.5 | Hello and welcome to the Spinning Wheels edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.8 | There are round things on the show this week. |
| 0:26.3 | I am Felix Amina Fusion. |
| 0:28.1 | I am joined as ever by Anna Shamansky. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello. |
| 0:31.4 | Who was born in Detroit. |
| 0:33.7 | Detroit. |
| 0:34.3 | I am also joined by Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:37.5 | Round things on the show include your glasses right now. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm wearing round glasses. I am going to be talking about a round building, which has just opened up in Coppitino, California, at a cost of $5 billion. |
| 0:52.7 | I am also going to be talking to these lovely people about artificial |
| 0:59.8 | intelligence. Is it the new mobile? I don't even know what that means, but apparently that's |
| 1:05.0 | what Google says we're all going to be doing. So we need to start putting our futurist hats on and trying |
| 1:12.3 | to work out whether we're all going to be just talking to devices in the future. But Anna, |
| 1:19.3 | for all that she was born in Detroit, has not got a driver's license. So that means that it is down |
| 1:24.4 | to Jordan. But you really don't have a driver's license? I don't have a driver's license now. |
| 1:47.4 | Even I'm. I grew up in Manhattan. I failed my driver's test three times. I spent high school getting rides from other people and being very annoying. I one time failed my driver's test because I talked too much. Like literally, he told me at the end. He's like, you just talked too much. And you really didn't learn your lesson. No, I didn't. |
| 1:44.3 | I'm now talking to you right now, dear listener. |
| 1:47.6 | So cars. |
| 1:48.7 | So cars. |
| 1:48.7 | Cars. |
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