The Godly Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Chris Lehman of the Baffler. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -How religion became an industry in America. -Donald Trump is a prosperity preacher. -Debt and the American version of Christianity. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Slate Money is brought to you by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. All Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period. Right now, get 50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by visiting Casper.com/slatemoney and using the promo code SLATEMONEY. And by Tracker, a coin-sized device that locates misplaced keys, wallets, bags, computers—anything in seconds. Make losing things a thing of the past. Get 30 percent off your entire order by going to TheTrackR.com and using the promo code MONEY. And by Goldman Sachs. To learn about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy, subscribe to the firm’s podcast, ‘Exchanges at Goldman Sachs,’ available on iTunes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.3	Hello!
0:38.3	And welcome to the most special edition of Slate Money.
0:47.0	I think we should call it the Godly Edition of Slate Money because we are going we are getting religion this week.
0:55.1	Holy shit we're godly.
0:57.1	Exactly.
0:58.8	Agitives that have never been
1:00.3	dismissed.
1:01.3	Slight.
1:02.3	Feeling super godly. I feel like we've. been and this is a big gaping gap a lakuna you might say yes not quite an
1:16.6	anaporia about there's we've been talking about money and money and money and
1:20.8	society and we have not talked about religion which is
1:26.7	a key part of how people think about money why people think about the money in the way they
1:31.2	do and it's a big business and so we have in the studio
1:38.0	quite aside from Kathy O'Neill the atheist blogger and at math babe.
1:44.7	And I really don't know anything about religion.
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