The Ballpoint Pen Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss: - The mysterious history of the Bic Cristal Ballpoint pen - Bond investing in a rising-rate environment- Hedge fund founder Anthony Scaramucci’s new White House role Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Production by Zachary Dinerstein Slate Money is brought to you by Boll and Branch. Get 50 dollars off your first set of sheets by going to BollandBranch.com and using promo code money. And by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. When it comes to the big decision of choosing a mortgage lender, work with one that has your best interests in mind. Use Rocket Mortgage for a transparent, trustworthy home loan process that’s completely online at QuickenLoans.com/slatemoney. And by Vistaprint. Get 500 business cards starting at just $9.99 by going to Vistaprint.com and using promo code money at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.4	Hello! And welcome to the Ballpoint Penn edition of Slate Money.
0:47.0	Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:49.4	I am Felix Salmon of Fusion. How many Ballpoint Pins do I own a lot? How many Ballpoint
0:56.6	pens do you? I although I'm not even sure that ownership is really a concept
1:00.0	which applies properly to Ballpoint Bands. Maybe the only thing like left that people can like freely pass to each other.
1:06.7	And like do you have a pen?
1:07.7	Yes, oh keep it.
1:08.7	You know like it's used to be true of cigarettes, you could use a bomb a cigarette
1:11.1	but now you can't do that because they're like $15 each but ballpoint pants you can still do it.
1:15.5	Yeah it's a wonderfully free anarchic like all of, all of your anarchist trends basically want everything to be like ballpoint pens.
1:26.4	We are so excited about ballpoint pens that we haven't even managed to introduce the episode.
1:31.5	Okay, so, Kathy O'Connor. introduce the episode. launching into a discussion of them.
1:34.0	So, Kathy O'Neill
1:35.8	is the author of Weapons of Math Destruction.
1:38.2	Jordan, Jordan, is the Moneybox Coal Nista Slate.
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