The Bureaucrats Gone Wild Edition

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4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss corruption in Brazil, US fracking and the effects on OPEC, and Paul Romer's war on bankspeak. 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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0:29.3	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:34.0	Hello and welcome to this.
0:37.0	Hello and welcome to the bureaucrats gone wild edition of Slate Money,
0:49.6	your guide to the Business and Finance News of the week. It's been a busy week. The
0:56.3	President of the United States has been jetting all over the world, including to
1:01.4	Saudi Arabia. We're going to talk about what exactly
1:04.9	is going on there. We're going to talk about Saudi Arabia at the oil price and what that
1:10.1	has to do with venture capitalists and private equity types in the United States.
1:16.1	It's all connected.
1:17.1	We are going to talk also about the World Bank and specifically its chief economist Paul Roma and his war against what is known as
1:27.3	Bank Speak.
1:28.3	Are you going to want to listen to some of this Bank Speak?
1:31.5	It's kind of awesome stuff so that's all to come I am
1:36.1	Felix salmon in fusion we are joined as ever by Anna Schimman
1:40.4	and Jordan Weisman hello people hello and I think
1:44.0	think that first we should talk about Brazil I think so I think we should talk about
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