The Don't Be Evil Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon and special guest Melanie Hicken of CNN Money chat with co-hosts Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate about the secretly evil world of government debt collectors, not-so-evil employee pay raises at Walmart, and oversized valuations for an uber-evil car sharing service.This episode was supported by Stamps.com. Go to Stamps.com and click on the microphone at the top of the homepage and enter "SLATEMONEY" for a no-risk trial plus $110 bonus offer – including up to $55 free postage. And by Harry's razors. Go to Harrys.com now and Harry’s will give you $5 off if you type in my coupon code “slate money” with your first purchase.
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| 0:27.8 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:35.3 | Hello, and welcome to the Don't Be Evil edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion, joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org. |
| 0:53.4 | Hi, Felix. |
| 0:54.2 | And Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:58.0 | How you doing, Felix? |
| 0:59.0 | I'm so happy that this is an exciting episode of Slate Money for a number of reasons. |
| 1:05.8 | We're going to get to one of them in a minute. |
| 1:08.5 | But first, I need to introduce our special guest because not only |
| 1:15.1 | are we talking about a big raise for Walmart employees and the crazy funding rounds at Snapchat and Uber, |
| 1:21.9 | we are also, most excitingly, taking a look at the secret world of government debt collectors. |
| 1:29.4 | And we have CNN Money's Melanie Hicken. |
| 1:33.7 | Hi, Felix. |
| 1:34.8 | Melanie is an investigative reporter, at least you have been for the past six months or so. |
| 1:40.2 | Yes. |
| 1:40.6 | And you have recently published a blockbuster investigation. |
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