The Exotic Fantasies Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2015
⏱️ 36 minutes
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On this week's episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate discuss Greece's showdown with its European lenders; competition inside the world of online travel, and the new film adaptation of "Fifty Shades of Grey," which begs the question: Are billionaires sexy?This week’s episode was sponsored by Stamps.com. If you go to stamps.com, click on the microphone at the top of the home page and enter SLATEMONEY for a $110 bonus offer, including up to $55 in free postage and a no-risk trial. And Citrix GoToMeeting, the easy way to meet with coworkers online. Visit GoToMeeting.com and click the “TRY IT FREE” button.Love Slate podcasts? Listen longer with Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, ad-free versions, exclusive podcasts and more. Start your 2-week free trial at slate.com/podcastplus
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| 0:34.8 | Hello and welcome to the Exotic Fantasacies edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion, joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org. |
| 0:52.2 | Happy Valentine's Day, Felix. |
| 0:53.4 | Thank you, Kathy. And Slate's own moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman. You know what I'm in love with? This podcast. Because this is a lovely, a lovely podcast. It is. It's full of love. It's full of the love that the Greeks have for the Germans. Wait, no, that's not right. But we're going to talk about Greece. We're going to see how well Jordan can pronounce |
| 1:16.4 | Janus Verifakis. Oh, not well at all. We're going to talk about consolidation in the online |
| 1:22.7 | travel industry, where Expedia has been buying everyone. They bought Tri-Vlostity and orbits in the space of |
| 1:28.6 | about six weeks. And then, because it's Valentine's Day, and we're feeling romantic, we're going |
| 1:34.7 | to talk about 50 shades of gray. We're going to take the financial angle. What is it that makes |
| 1:40.2 | billionaires so sexy? And are they sexy? Are they sexy? |
| 1:45.1 | Let's challenge the premise also. |
| 1:47.4 | Let's start from first principles here, Felix. |
| 1:50.0 | We will not start from the first principles. |
| 1:51.6 | We will start with Greece, Jordan. |
| 1:53.3 | We're going to come back to the sexy billionaires. |
| 1:55.8 | Yes. |
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