The Flipping and Flopping Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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 President Obama's flip flop on the 529 college savings plan, the FCC's flip flop on net neutrality, and Shake Shack's flipping of burgers but not (yet) flopping on the public stock market. Find more information and links to our sponsors on our show page. Complete Slate's podcast listener survey! Tell us about yourself and your favorite podcasts so Slate can serve you better. We'd appreciate two minutes of your time. Go to slate.com/survey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	McDonald's are making small improvements to our classic burgers, searing out 100%
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0:07.6	And we're serving them hotter for meltier cheese, all in new toast of your buns.
0:12.0	The classics, now a little more mmm.
0:14.2	comparison with prior classic burgers served after 11 a.m. subject to availability.
0:17.8	Mm.
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