Slate Money - Toby for Prime Minister
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week, Slate Money talks about Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine, the UK’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the truth about the safety of safe deposit boxes. Plus a cameo from Toby the Dog!
Equifax Settlement- https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/equifax-settlement-money-how-to-claim.html
Emily's Article - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sexual-harassment-ernst-young-arbitration-bill_n_5d371887e4b004b6adb65597
And in the Slate Plus segment: European Central Bank Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Toby for Prime Minister edition of Sleep Money, your guide to the |
| 0:18.3 | Business and Finance News of the week. I'm Felix |
| 0:21.6 | Salmon of Axios. I'm joined by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. Hello. I'm joined by |
| 0:26.8 | Anna Shamansky. Hello. And I'm also joined by how would you describe Toby? |
| 0:31.7 | Cute. They're cute. Tiny. He's a poodle mix of some kind, right? I think he's got some |
| 0:36.4 | like Jack Russell in him. |
| 0:37.7 | Anyway, I am joined by Toby the Dog, who is very friendly and very cute, and he is going |
| 0:42.9 | to make a cameo appearance in this show, because obviously, because he is literally here |
| 0:48.2 | in the studio with us. |
| 0:49.5 | We are going to talk about Facebook and the $5 billion fine. They have now agreed to pay to the FTC. We are going to talk about Facebook and the $5 billion fine. They have now agreed to pay to the FTC. |
| 0:56.4 | We are going to talk about safety deposit boxes and whether they are actually safe. And, of course, |
| 1:03.4 | we're going to talk about, I can't believe I'm actually saying this, the new prime minister |
| 1:08.0 | of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr. Boris Johnson, |
| 1:15.4 | and whether he is better or worse at that job than Toby would be. |
| 1:19.5 | All of that coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:24.0 | So this was the week of the big Facebook fine. |
| 1:27.9 | Da-dam. |
| 1:28.8 | How big was it, Emily? |
| 1:30.8 | Five billion dollars. |
| 1:32.8 | You are going, I can already tell how this is going to go. |
| 1:35.6 | You're going to say that's so small compared to and then name some big number compared to Facebook. |
| 1:40.7 | And Anna was going to say, no, it's actually big if you compare to some other number. |
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