Slate Money - The We’re Not Drunk, We’re Multi-Billionaires Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Billion Dollar Whale, multi-billion dollar heists, sovereign wealth funds, and the trade war with China on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Emily Peck, and Tom Wright.
In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, Emily and Tom discuss the epic partying and celebrity relationships of Jho Low.
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck, @TomWrightAsia
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the... |
| 0:10.0 | We're not drunk. We're multi-billionaires edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm joined as ever by Anna Shemansky. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello. |
| 0:28.9 | And by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. |
| 0:31.7 | Hello. |
| 0:33.0 | And most excitingly, by Mr. Tom Wright of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello. |
| 0:39.7 | Welcome. |
| 0:41.1 | Tom has written what I want to say is the most rollicking business book of the year. |
| 0:48.1 | It is up there with whatever latest J.K. Rowling thing just came out. |
| 0:52.9 | And it's all nonfiction it's great it is called |
| 0:56.5 | billion dollar whale billion dollar whale which we were just having a discussion about whether |
| 1:01.1 | we understand what that means it's basically about this guy jollo who gambled a lot and if you |
| 1:07.7 | gamble a lot the casinos call you a whale. A whale. |
| 1:11.3 | So that's the explanation for the book title, if you're confused by the book title. |
| 1:17.4 | The explanation for the podcast title, if you're confused by that, is going to be revealed in Slate Plus. |
| 1:25.5 | But we are going to talk about Tom's book. |
| 1:27.9 | We are going to talk about flawed and malfeasance and skulldudgery in the world of sovereign wealth funds and international finance. |
| 1:39.4 | It's going to be a juicy episode. |
| 1:44.2 | We're going to talk about Paris Hill. We're going to talk about Kanye West. We're going to talk about Paris Hilton. |
| 1:45.5 | We're going to talk about Kanye West. |
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