The Doomed Youth Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss: America’s growing lead poisoning problem The actual effectiveness of China’s educational system How some of the Pulse nightclub victim’s families are suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google for their roles in spreading ISIS propaganda Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected]: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Production by Zachary Dinerstein Slate Money is brought to you by Placemakers, a new Slate podcast made possible by JPMorgan Chase. This podcast tells the stories of neighborhoods, businesses, and nonprofits who are working together to move their communities forward. Download and Subscribe to Placemakers wherever you get your podcasts. And by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. Rocket Mortgage brings the mortgage process into the twenty-first century with an easy online process. Check out Rocket Mortgage today at QuickenLoans.com/slatemoney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:33.4	Hello! And welcome to the doomed youth edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance
0:48.5	news of the week.
0:50.1	I am Felix Hammond of Fusion. I'm here to wish you a very Merry Christmas
0:55.0	because it's Christmas time
0:57.0	with Kathy O'Neill, the auto of Weapons of Math Destruction.
1:00.0	And Happy Hanukkah.
1:01.5	Hello everyone.
1:02.0	And Hanukkah time.
1:03.0	And Jordan Weisman, the Monday Box columnist at Slate.
1:07.0	And it's best of us for the rest of us.
1:09.0	And we are going to do a very unholliday.
1:15.0	There's nothing holiday themed about this episode of State Money.
1:17.4	It's a perfectly normal episode of Slate Money.
1:20.3	For the festivities, you're going to have to wait until next week and the craft beer edition.
1:27.0	This week we're going to be talking about the Chinese educational system, what we know about it and what they're up to.
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