The Cost of Employment Edition
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🗓️ 13 June 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion and Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann welcome special guest Elie Mystal of the blog Above the Law to discuss:The sudden resignation of Twitter CEO Dick CostoloThe 10-year anniversary of Elie quitting Big Law, and the state of the profession.The ethics and economics of  student loan defaults   Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Cost of Employment Edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Felix Hammer of Fusion. I'm joined, as always, by Slate's Moneybox columnist, Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:18.8 | Hello, Felix. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello, Jordan. |
| 0:25.0 | And Kathy O'Neill is in Atlanta. |
| 0:33.2 | And so standing in for Kathy, we have the insanely amazing and awesome, Ellie Mistel, the editor of Above the Law. |
| 0:34.0 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:34.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:37.6 | Above the Law is, quick plug. |
| 0:41.5 | A legal blog that focuses on the fun part of law. |
| 0:47.1 | It's hilarious. If you never thought that law could be funny, just check it out. It's fantastic. |
| 0:53.9 | And we will be talking about the profession of the law and why Ellie is not in it. |
| 0:55.4 | Why I'm recovering. |
| 0:56.4 | A little bit later. |
| 1:01.9 | And we'll also be talking about student loans because we love the topic of student loans. |
| 1:03.7 | Here's today's question. |
| 1:09.3 | Is it ever a good idea to just simply default on your student loans? |
| 1:12.3 | We will ask Ellie, he has first-person experience of this. |
| 1:17.3 | But first, we're going to talk about a different kind of quitting. |
| 1:23.3 | We're going to talk about CEOs losing their job and one CEO in particular. |
| 1:26.7 | It was this week, a big news week. |
| 1:29.4 | It was a big news week for CEOs losing their jobs. |
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