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Slate Money

The Bad Deals Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, Anna, Emily, and Felix remember Jack Bogle, discuss constant Brexit drama, and take a look at bad dealmaking. In the Slate Plus segment: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposed vacation plans for New Yorkers. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck Podcast production by Max Jacobs. Stories discussed: The Wall Street Journal: Five Ways Jack Bogle Changed the World of the Everyday Investor The Guardian: Corbyn Could Face String of Resignations if He Backs “People's Vote”The Huffington Post: Exactly How Bad Is Trump at Making Deals? Even Worse Than You Think. New York: Mayor de Blasio Aims to Guarantee All New Yorkers a Paid Vacation PEW Research Center: Young Adult Households Are Earning More Than Most Older Americans Did at the Same Age PEW Research Center: Americans Are Moving at Historically Low Rates, in Part Because Millennials are Staying Put Obama White House Archives: 15 Economic Facts About Millennials The Federal Reserve: Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2017 BuzzFeed News: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation The Wall Street Journal: Fed Says Student Debt Has Hurt the U.S. Housing Market Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello! Welcome to the Bad Deals edition of Slate Money,

0:17.0

your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

0:20.0

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

0:22.0

I'm joined by Anna Schmanski

0:24.0

and by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post

0:27.0

who has written a long and fascinating article

0:31.0

in the Huffington Post about deal-making in general and about the

0:37.5

President's deal-making in particular. We are going to talk about that and we are going to talk about the worst deal that I think any of us have seen in a long time which is not anything in America.

0:51.0

It is the Brexit fiasco which managed to become even more of a

0:56.4

fiasco this week if such a thing were even possible. No one knows what's going on

1:00.9

including us but we are going to manage to navigate our way through that.

1:07.0

Anyway, and we are also, we really do need to talk about Jack Bogle because he's a hero. So we are going to talk about

1:14.6

Jack Bogle, the founder of Vanguard and the man who probably saved you

1:20.0

thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars on your investment fees.

1:24.1

Well done to him, thank you Jack.

1:27.2

I must also mention that we will, in the show notes, be posting all of the juicy links that you have been emailing and asking for

1:37.0

In terms of Anna's

1:40.2

Contentions about millennials this was not just pulled out of her bottom. I swear.

1:45.7

There are actual links and they're all going to be in the show notes if you want to click on those

1:49.4

links and see for yourself you are able to do that. So all of that is coming up on slate money.

1:56.3

So Anna and I have had various fights in the past about index funds and the utility thereof and whether they're

2:05.0

systemically dangerous and all of this kind of thing and I don't want to

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