The Culp-able Edition
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:19.2 | Hello and welcome to the culpable edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, which is Greek for please subscribe to my newsletter. |
| 0:26.6 | It's Axios Edge, it's coming out on Sunday, read it. I am joined by Anna Schmanski. Hello? I am joined by Anna Schmansky. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello? |
| 0:34.0 | I am joined by the Huffington Post's very own Emily Beck. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello. |
| 0:39.0 | And we have had a really tough job this week trying to work out what to talk about because there is so much to talk about. |
| 0:48.0 | Amazingly, for all of the Elon Crazy, we are not going to talk about Tesla even though we could probably |
| 0:53.9 | devote an entire episode to the latest stuff going on there. We are not going to |
| 0:59.0 | talk about Unilever but I'm really interested in that as well. I think this week we're going to talk about |
| 1:05.8 | supply chains, international geopolitical hacking, |
| 1:10.7 | the fall and fall of General Electric. |
| 1:15.0 | Remember that used to be a big company which mattered? |
| 1:18.0 | We are going to talk. |
| 1:21.0 | Let's start with Donald Trump, but we haven't spoken too much about his |
| 1:27.4 | taxes of late. And somewhere in the middle of this crazy new cycle, the New York Times drops |
| 1:34.3 | 14,000 words of insane like 18-month-long investigation of Fred Trump's tax |
| 1:39.8 | returns, revealing that Donald Trump was like making a million dollars a year at the age of seven |
| 1:45.0 | in all of these crazy ways that they used to get around inheritance tax. |
| 1:50.9 | And like this was really big in the new cycle for what like 20 minutes? Yeah it was about a half an hour where people seem to be excited about the New York Times story. I don't think that many people actually read the all 14,000 words that Susan Craig and John Barstow wrote. |
| 2:04.4 | I didn't. |
| 2:05.4 | Wow and we're going to talk about it which but the New York Times did a great thing which |
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