Slate Money: WTF SBF

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🗓️ 12 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and What Next TBD host Lizzie O’Leary discuss the ongoing disaster at crypto exchange platform FTX. They also talk about the slightly smaller meltdowns at Twitter and Meta. In the Plus segment: the sale of Paul Allen’s art collection. Podcast production by Anna Phillips. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about Avast One at Avast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello! Welcome to the WTF SPF episode of Slate Money. Your guide to the business and
0:21.1	finance news of what has been a completely batchy week. Wild stuff. Wild stuff. There
0:28.2	was like totally fucking bananas. Totally fucking bananas. I am Felix Amelib Axios. I'm
0:33.9	here with Emily Peck of Axios. Hello. And we have a special guest. Hello. Who are you
0:39.5	special guests? I'm Lizzie O'Leary, also of Slate. And I host the podcast What Next DVD.
0:45.3	And you and I are going to be talking on what next DVD? Yeah. DVD. All about SPF WTF.
0:51.5	Oh, M.G. FDIC, CZ, FTX US, chapter 11. FML. FML. It's a shit show in the world of crypto
1:03.6	this week. So we are going to be covering the crypto shit show. We are going to be talking
1:10.0	about Twitter, of course, because that has imploded in a shit show. Emily apologizes. But
1:16.3	it was her idea. She's like, we do need to talk about this now. We are going to talk
1:19.4	about meta, which laid off 11,000 people, which you may not have noticed amidst all of
1:24.0	the chaos. We have a sleep class about the Paul Allen art sale. And generally it's just
1:29.5	an awesome episode because Lizzie's on it. So keep on listening. It's all coming up on
1:34.4	the slate money.
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