Slate Money: Why Argentina Should Default... Again

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Slate Money, featuring Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of Mathbabe.org and Slate's Jordan Weissmann. This week: Amazon is making a smartphone, but will people pay for the privilege of easier shopping? An argument over how climate change and impending civil war in Iraq will (or won't) affect the oil market. And the implications of the foreign policy decision the Supreme Court of the United States just made on what Argentina still owes hedge funds, more than a decade after default. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.6	Until 18-plus, T's and C supply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Hello and welcome to Slate Money, our weekly podcast guiding you through the
0:39.3	important business and finance news of the week. I'm'm Felix Salmon a fusion in New York and on this show today
0:47.0	Amazon is making its own phone impulse shoppers rejoice for the entire world is now your checkout aisle.
0:55.0	Then we'll talk about the future of fossil fuels in a world of climate change and
0:59.3	Iraqi chaos and finally Argentina my favorite subject in the world has the US Supreme Court
1:06.4	essentially forced it to default on its debts again and then of course there's the
1:12.3	lightning round at the end where each of the three of us
1:16.4	will come up with a single number which caught our attention this week.
1:20.0	Let me introduce regular guest Kathy O'Neill, head of the lead program for data journalism at Columbia.
1:26.7	What's your number this week?
1:28.7	My number is 159 billion.
1:31.2	That's a very large number.
1:34.0	And Slate's own Moneybox Columnist, Jordan Weisman is also here.
1:38.0	Jordan, you can't possibly come up with a number bigger than 159 billion.
1:42.0	No, I'm going for minimalism this week.
1:43.4	I'm going for a mere $82.
1:46.8	82.
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