Slate Money - The Turning Point Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Senior Finance Correspondent at Business Insider, Linette Lopez (@lopezlinette).
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-What the lending firm, Point, is pitching to homeowners.
-A new Census report that shows a 5.2% jump in 2015 U.S. median household incomes.
-Why Bayer, Monsanto shareholders are not happy about an over $57 Billion deal.
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Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.7 | Hello! |
| 0:10.0 | And welcome to the Turning Point edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance |
| 0:18.4 | news of the week. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm joined by Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:26.1 | Hello. |
| 0:27.1 | And because Kathy O'Neill is on book tour, by popular demand, we feature the return of... |
| 0:35.9 | Hi, it's Lynette. Hi. I'm very excited to be here and to hear that I had a popular demand. |
| 0:41.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:42.5 | Lynette Lopez, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:45.5 | Hi. |
| 0:46.0 | The senior finance correspondent, Business Insider, the host of... |
| 0:51.3 | What's your podcast? |
| 0:52.0 | It's called Hard Pass. |
| 0:53.3 | It's called Hard Pass, and it's much shorter than Slate Money. |
| 0:57.9 | So you can squeeze it in between episodes of Slate Money. |
| 1:00.8 | Right. Like, just in case you only want six minutes of me screaming in your ear, this is perfect for you. |
| 1:06.2 | And the tagline is rejecting the business of everyday life. |
| 1:09.2 | So, you know, there's going to be a lot of shade involved. We are going to be talking about the big macro news of the week. I try and |
| 1:17.8 | avoid macro, but this one you can't really avoid because there was this massive census report. And |
| 1:23.1 | hey, guys, you're really, you're rich. Your wealth went up. You're amazing. Well done. Congratulations. Well |
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