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The Five-Star Sandwich Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Italy, the Volcker Rule, and sandwiches on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and Emily Peck.  Podcast Production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the five-star sandwich edition of Sleep Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

0:24.7

We have new governments all over southern Europe.

0:28.0

We have a new government in Italy.

0:29.4

We have a new government in Spain.

0:31.8

We have Donald Trump tweeting out the jobs report before it even

0:36.5

happened which I'm sure has to break. I have no idea how many rules we're not

0:40.0

you're going to talk about. Are we going to talk about that? I have no idea. We're definitely

0:43.7

going to talk about sandwiches because obviously, you know, I'm English. I like my sandwiches.

0:49.5

Sandwiches it turns out are worth billions of dollars. Yay, good for sandwiches.

0:54.0

A torta is a sandwich.

0:57.0

A hot dog is not a sandwich.

0:59.0

We are having debates about falafels.

1:01.0

We are going to talk about the Volkir rule, which is being changed. It is going to be changed from one thing to another thing and lefty types. I'm hoping that Emily Peck is going to be a lefty type here.

1:15.0

Wow.

1:16.0

Lefty types are going up in arms.

1:18.5

You up in arms about the Volkary rule?

1:20.4

Uh, I'm in a middling arm state. I'm kind of my arms are sort of

1:25.4

of dangling over the table right now but they're not all the way in the air.

1:29.5

So we're going to talk about that and whether there's any reason for distress, panic, or other forms of visible running around in circles.

1:41.6

But Anna Shimansanski being here and being the expert on all like crazy fucked up countries,

1:50.0

you can tell us what is going on in Italy because we had like genuine market turmoil this week.

1:59.0

Okay, so when you're talking about what happened in Italy this past week,

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