The Dinosaur Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss leaving the Paris Agreement, credit scores at a record high, and Goldman Sachs buying Venezuelan bonds. Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: [email protected] Twitter:@felixsalmon,@Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	Hello!
0:41.0	Welcome to the Dinah. Hello!
0:43.0	Welcome to the Dinosaur edition of Slate Money,
0:48.0	Your guide to the business and finance news of a very depressing week. I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. I'm joined by Anna
0:58.8	Shimanski and Jordan Weisman. hello guys. Hello.
1:03.0	Hello.
1:04.0	And this week was the week that the United States officially pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement,
1:12.0	which makes it one of those weeks a bit like the one after Brexit
1:16.1	or the one after the election in the US where I'm just feeling horribly depressed.
1:22.1	We are going to talk about that obviously. We are also going
1:27.9	to talk about credit in America. Did you know that your credit score is going up?
1:33.7	It is.
1:34.7	Well, I mean, statistically speaking, it's anyway.
1:36.5	Yes.
1:37.5	It turns out that Americans have never been so creditworthy as they are now, or at least not in a very long time.
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