The Disparate Impact Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On this episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss how everybody's a little bit different. Topics discussed on today’s show include: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau looks at racial discrimination in car loans. And how racial discrimination in loans is done. Can Jack Dorsey run both Square and Twitter? Private equities buy back distressed mortgages, and Elizabeth Warren's plea. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Slate Money is brought to you by Braintree. Looking to set up payments for your business? Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration. Plus, we’ll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-\xadfree. To learn more, visit BraintreePayments.com/slatemoney. And by OPEN ACCOUNT, a podcast series created by SuChin Pak and Umpqua Bank. OPEN ACCOUNT explores, through honest and sometimes comical interviews, our uncomfortable silence around money. OPEN ACCOUNT is available now on iTunes. And by Goldman Sachs. Get information about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy on the firm’s podcast, ‘Exchanges at Goldman Sachs,’ available on iTunes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	Braintree gives your app or website a payment solution that accepts just about every payment method with one simple integration.
0:43.4	Plus, we'll give you your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free.
0:48.2	To learn more, visit Braintree Payments.com slash Slate Money.
0:54.8	And by Open Account, a podcast series created by Sujan Pac and Umpqua Bank.
1:00.8	Open Account Explorers through honest and sometimes comical interviews are uncomfortable silence around money.
1:07.0	Open Account is available now on iTunes.
1:10.0	And by Goldman Sachs.
1:13.0	Get information about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy on the firm's podcast, Exchanges at Golden Sachs, available on iTunes.
1:23.0	Hello and welcome to the Disparas Impact Edition of Slate Money.
1:34.0	Yes, you're going to find out what that means.
1:37.0	Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
1:40.0	I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion, and am joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data
1:46.7	scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org.
1:49.8	Hello everyone. We, this is where Kathy gets to really dive into her comfort zone this week.
1:58.0	It's going to be a fantastic one and of course Leats Moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman. Hellobox columnist Jordan Weisman.
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