Slate Money - The Evil Empires Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, Emily, Felix, and Anna discuss the New York Times Magazine story on the Murdoch family, the Bezos’ divorce settlement and Saudi Aramco.
In the Slate Plus segment: Congestion pricing in Manhattan.
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the evil empires edition of Slate Money or Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:20.2 | We have so many empires to talk about this week. |
| 0:24.8 | We're going to talk about the empire from Star Wars. |
| 0:30.4 | No, we're not. |
| 0:30.9 | We're going to... |
| 0:31.8 | I am Felix Ammon of Axios. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm here with Emily Peck of the Huffington Post, who was a very good singer. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm here with Anna Shamansky. Hello. And Anna, can you just give us a quick rundown of the evil empires we're |
| 0:46.7 | going to talk about on this song? Well, we are going to be talking about the Murdoch family. |
| 0:51.6 | We are going to be talking about Jeff Bezos. And we are going to be talking about the Saudi royal family. |
| 0:57.2 | And at the end of this show, if you make it through to the end, which I hope you do because it's pretty cool, we are going to rank them in terms of evil. |
| 1:05.8 | That is all coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm obsessed with this story. |
| 1:11.8 | Which story are you obsessed by? |
| 1:13.6 | The New York Times Magazine story about the Murdoch family. |
| 1:16.2 | It's long. |
| 1:17.3 | It's long. |
| 1:18.2 | It reads like a novel. |
| 1:19.5 | It spans the globe. |
| 1:21.1 | It hopscotches from Australia to Britain to the United States. |
| 1:26.2 | And if you like Succession and both Emily and I love Succession, |
| 1:31.1 | and if I get my druthers, |
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