Slate Money - The Automatic for the People Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon chats and co-hosts Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate continue the odious debt conversation by discussing how we can pre-emptively prevent evil dictators from borrowing money. Also, robot wars, Apple's dive into making class distinctions between its customers, and racist fines. More here. This week’s episode was sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting, the easy way to meet with coworkers online. Visit GoToMeeting.com and click the “TRY IT FREE” button. Love Slate podcasts? Listen longer with Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, ad-free versions, exclusive podcasts and more. Start your 2-week free trial at slate.com/podcastplus
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| 0:17.1 | Hello and welcome to the Automatic for the People edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm Felix Salmon, a fusion, and I'm joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org. |
| 0:36.6 | Hi, Felix. |
| 0:37.2 | And Slate's Moneybox columnist, Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:40.2 | Hi, Felix. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello, Jordan. |
| 0:42.4 | And happy Pi Day, if you're listening to this on the day that it comes out. |
| 0:48.1 | It's 31415. |
| 0:50.5 | Maybe it's 9.23 in the morning. |
| 0:53.5 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:54.2 | That's amazing. |
| 0:55.1 | It could be. |
| 0:56.1 | And if it is, good for you. |
| 0:58.0 | Once a century moment we're passing here. |
| 1:01.2 | We are going to revisit because this is what we do. |
| 1:04.7 | We read our emails and our emails say things like, you mentioned odious debt. |
| 1:09.4 | That's a fascinating concept. |
| 1:10.8 | Can you talk more about odious debt, please? And then we say, yes, of course odious debt. That's a fascinating concept. Can you talk more about |
| 1:11.5 | odious debt, please? And then we say, yes, of course we can, because that's how nice we are. |
| 1:16.6 | So we're going to do that. And we are going to talk about robo advisors and robot wars. It's fun. |
| 1:24.9 | And we will obviously talk about the Apple Watch because I don't think we could |
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