Slate Money - The Call-In Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski answer your voicemails on topics like debt to GDP ratios, trade settlement periods, and the morals of financial reporting.
In Slate Plus: The hosts answer one more listener question about yield curves.
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Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann
Production by Daniel Schroeder
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, and welcome to the call-in edition of Slate Money, the long-awaited call-in edition. We've been |
| 0:24.8 | teasing this one for a while now, but this is finally your opportunity to get your |
| 0:33.4 | questions answered. We have a whole bunch of really good questions and we're going to try and |
| 0:37.8 | run through as many of them as we can. We're going to save one just for the slate plus listeners |
| 0:44.8 | at the end because you guys are special. You get an extra cue and an extra A. But yes, |
| 0:52.2 | I'm Felix Salmon & Fusion. I'm joined as ever by jordan weissman and |
| 0:56.6 | anna shamansky you there hey everybody shaps and let's go to the questions mr dan schrader |
| 1:04.4 | producer of slate money can you queue up for us? Question number one. |
| 1:12.1 | Hi. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm wondering about the safety of my 401k and pensions. |
| 1:22.4 | We have a lot of money stored in there, and I'm just waiting for the world to explode any second, |
| 1:29.8 | and I don't know if I should take it out now and spend it on something, not all of it, |
| 1:34.7 | but like, you know, enough to, like, do some stuff around the house. |
| 1:40.2 | Or if I should just hang on, I just feel like the stock market is out of control. |
| 1:45.0 | It's just, we're going to, we're in a bubble, and it's going to explode. |
| 1:47.5 | And I just don't know when to start selling. |
| 1:51.1 | So it'd be really helpful to know what you think. |
| 1:54.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:54.7 | Bye. |
| 1:55.6 | So I really love this question. |
| 1:57.5 | I love a couple of great things about this question, which we can talk about a little |
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