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Slate Money - The Dread Pirate Trump Edition

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Gary Cohn, South African land, and Dodd-Frank in this week's Slate Money with Felix Salmon, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski. 

Production by Daniel Schroeder


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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:14.3

Hello and welcome to the Dread Pirate Trump edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

0:26.0

I'm Felix Salmon. I'm joined by Anna Shaman and Jordan Weissman, and this is going to be the second week of vaguely tariff-related talks.

0:38.8

Mostly the defenestrations

0:41.0

associated there with, or the auto

0:43.1

defenestrations associated there with.

0:45.5

It's like sort of like an auto defenestration,

0:48.8

sort of like a defenestration.

0:50.8

Anyway, sorry.

0:51.7

We are going to talk about South Africa again, but this time we're going to talk about

0:58.3

whether and how they are going to start seizing various bits of land from white people.

1:06.3

We're going to talk about Dodd-Frank.

1:08.2

Do you remember Dodd-Frank?

1:09.3

That was a thing in 2009 or thereabouts when we decided to reform the banking sector.

1:16.5

Apparently now we're having second thoughts about that.

1:19.0

So we're going to talk about that with Jordan Weissman, who's been caring about such things.

1:23.7

But first, it's unlike us, I will admit, to basically do the same thing twice in a row.

1:31.7

Last week, we were talking all about steel terrorists.

1:34.6

So this week we're going to try not to talk about steel terrorists,

1:37.3

but we do need to talk about the fact that the most financially literate person in the Trump administration has now resigned.

1:46.5

You don't think Stephen Nushin is like as financially illiterate as Gary Cohn?

1:51.0

I'm quite sure that he's not.

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