Slate Money - The Xi Loves Me Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week’s Slate Money comes to you from the World Economic Forum in Davos! Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann are joined by Adrian Monck, head of communications at the WEF, and Rana Foroohar, the soon-to-be Associate Editor of the Financial Times.
They discuss:China’s President Xi Jinping and his support of globalizationBritain's role in the world, post BrexitThe future of banks and business in a more populist western world
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello! |
| 0:11.1 | And welcome to the She Loves Me edition of Slate Money. |
| 0:16.4 | Runner's giggling already. |
| 0:17.8 | She's like, that's such a bad pun. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm waiting. I'm just |
| 0:21.8 | waited. I can't wait to hear what you're going to say. So this, by the way, is the one and |
| 0:27.1 | only Rana Faruha, soon to be columnist extraordinaire at the Financial Times. She is here with me |
| 0:34.7 | in Davos, Switzerland, with Adrian Monk. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm not quite sure. |
| 0:41.0 | He's basically the dark prince of the World Economic Forum. |
| 0:45.5 | What's your sort of... |
| 0:48.4 | What do you do here, Adrian? |
| 0:50.0 | Eminence bland, perhaps. |
| 0:54.4 | Basically, I'm on the board of the forum, |
| 0:56.2 | and I'm in charge of looking after the forum's media, |
| 1:00.1 | it's comms, and also all the young folks who we have associated with us, |
| 1:04.3 | which is our shapers who are our 20-somethings, 30-something, young global leaders, |
| 1:08.2 | and also the nice people who come here and do fantastic things are called social entrepreneurs. |
| 1:13.8 | So Adrian's basically everything. |
| 1:15.9 | Oh, and what's more in New York City getting up right and early to try and place this in some vague form of non-naval gazing perspective is Jordan Wiseman. |
| 1:29.1 | Hello from Earth, Felix. How are you doing? |
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