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Slate Money

The Anna's Air Quotes Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3988 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Felix Salmon of Fusion, political risk consultant Anna Szymanski, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, discuss: - Toys R Us filing for bankruptcy- The new startup Loftium - Sukuk bonds Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: [email protected] Twitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello welcome to the Anna's Airquotes edition of Slave Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

0:54.7

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion joined by Jordan Weisman of Slate and also by Anna Shimansky.

1:01.0

Hello.

1:02.0

Hello people. Hello. and we are going to be talking about

1:06.8

so-kuk today. You get a little prize if you know what's

1:11.4

Sukukukk is.

1:13.0

It's one of those wonderfully nerdy bits

1:16.0

of international finance, which I've been mildly

1:18.7

obsessed with for about 10 or 15 years. And it just so happens that Anna Shimanski is here so I finally

1:26.4

get to nerd out about it's going to be awesome we are also going to be talking about Lofteum, which is a rare metal that was just discovered in an obscure province of China and it's going to be and it's going to be a major part

1:48.7

it turns out to be a major part of the iPhone 10 without which the iPhone wait maybe that's not what Lofium is then we are going to have

1:57.5

I actually would have loved to see you string together an entire fantasy segment about what Lofium is.

2:03.2

Just keep going and see how long before listening.

2:06.2

Before someone was like, wait a second.

2:08.8

I mean, it is a well-known fact that metals end in IUM.

2:12.3

This is why aluminium should be aluminium and not aluminum but that's a whole other.

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