The Disappearing Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss: - Matthew Desmond’s piece on the mortgage interest deduction in the New York Times Magazine.- The low level of the Volatility Index- Snap’s first earnings report after going public Check out other Panoply podcasts atmegaphone.fm. Email: [email protected]:@felixsalmon,@Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder. --Felix Salmon is a senior editor at Fusion.--Anna Szymanski is an emerging markets expert and senior strategy officer at a political risk startup.--Jordan Weissmann is Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0	Hello and welcome to the disappearing edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance
0:49.9	News of the Week.
0:51.7	I'm Felix Hammond of Fusion. I'm joined by Anna Shimanski.
0:56.0	Hello? And Jordan Weisman of Slate.
0:58.4	Hello. And we are going to be talking about things that disappear like Snap SharePrise. And yeah,
1:06.7	Snapchat is part of a company called Snap. It had its first earnings report
1:11.2	this week and its earnings were not good.
1:14.0	We're going to talk about that later.
1:15.3	We are also going to be talking about another thing which has disappeared,
1:18.6	which is volatility hitting pretty much all-time lows, stocks aren't moving, with the exception of Snapchat.
1:28.0	And we're going to talk about why. I have a theory about this one, but I'm sure Anna's going to have a better theory.
1:34.8	I'll try.
1:35.8	But first, Jordan and I have been fighting for about a year or more on and off.
1:41.6	On Twitter, about the mortgage interest deduction which I think is the most
1:45.8	ridiculous thing and most unjustifiable thing in the tax code and Jordan ever since he became a
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