The Codfather Edition
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski are joined by Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth to discuss:
The size of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund
Scandinavian economics
The 30th anniversary of Black Monday
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.3 | Hello and welcome to the International Codfather edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week where... |
| 0:28.6 | Dance right? |
| 0:30.6 | ...dainte... |
| 0:31.6 | ...theirchid cobbfather. |
| 0:33.6 | ...pohmugged come!...pohshaven! Father Torsken Come! |
| 0:39.3 | Torsen coming! |
| 0:42.3 | Torsken coming now. |
| 0:48.3 | See Torsken, see Torsken, see Torsken, A feldth of Fils. |
| 0:50.3 | A Norsken, a Norsken, a Norsken, |
| 0:52.3 | Torsken coming now. Who's the man? This is. Ben-Noschkin. In Norskine, Toskin come and oh. |
| 0:57.1 | Vincent, |
| 0:57.7 | come out of the night. |
| 0:59.4 | That is, I believe, so Dan has managed to put this up on the screen in the studio. |
| 1:10.5 | Robin Wigglesworth. Hello. Robin Wigglesworth is a special guest. I'm Felix Hammond of Fusion. Jordan Weissman is here. Thank you, Jordan, for turning up. Yeah, I'm back. I'm alive. Anna Shumansky is here. Hello. But Robin Wigglesworth, you have like a day job at the FT, but mainly you're just a |
| 1:30.1 | professional Norwegian. Yes, and that's kind of my full-time job. He is the codfather. |
| 1:35.3 | You are the codfather. You translated this thing that we were just listening to. Yeah, |
| 1:41.7 | can you just explain what it is and what makes it, like, yeah, what |
| 1:44.6 | is it? And why are we all laughing? It's a video that the Norwegian Central Bank did, |
| 1:51.8 | together with the launch of some new money. They were coming out with new notes and they |
| 1:55.0 | look pretty cool. There was a picture of a cod on the 200-crona note, which is roughly |
| 2:00.5 | this of 115 bucks or something. And it's |
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