The Call-In Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

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🗓️ 23 December 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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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. Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Twitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the call in addition of slate money the long awaited Call in Edition, we've been teasing this one for a while now,
0:58.3	but this is finally your opportunity to get your questions answered we have a whole bunch of
1:06.0	really good questions and we're going to try and run through as many of them as
1:10.3	we can we're gonna save one just for the Slate Plus listeners at the end because you
1:16.2	guys are special. You get an extra Q and an extra A. But yes, I'm Felix Salmon and Fusion. I'm joined as ever by Jordan Weisman and Anna Schmansky.
1:28.0	Hey there. Hey everybody. Shabs. And let's go to the questions.
1:33.2	Mr Dan Schrader, producer of Slate Money,
1:37.4	can you cue up for us?
1:40.1	Question number one. Hi, I'm wondering about the safety of my 401k and pensions. We have a lot of money stored in there and I'm just waiting for the world to explode any second and I don't know if I should pick it out now and spend it on something. Not all of it, but like, you know, enough to like do some stuff around the house.
2:08.0	Or if I should just hang on, I just feel like the stock market is out of control,
2:15.0	it's just we're gonna, we're in a bubble and it's gonna explode and I just don't know
2:19.1	when to start selling. So, that'd be really helpful to know what you think. Thank you.
2:24.7	Bye. So I really love this question. I love a couple of great things about this
2:31.0	question which we can talk about a little bit.
2:35.0	The first bit is where you talk about how you have money in your 401k and your pension,
2:41.0	which kind of implies its retirement money, but then you're like,
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