The Great Debate Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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On this episode of Slate Money, Nando Vila of Fusion joins Felix Salmon (also of Fusion), Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann in a battle of wits to discuss: Student loan debt (and whether we should do away with it all together)Neel Kashkari, the new president of the Minneapolis Federal ReserveAn alarming statistic which shows that death rates for middle age white Americas have been rising over the last fifteen years Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @Felix salmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Slate Money is brought to you by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period. And get 50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/slatemoney and using the promo code SLATEMONEY. And by SAP HANA. SAP HANA helps the world's best companies get the answers they need to become more agile, develop new streams of revenue, and predict the future. Run SAP and Run Simple. Visit sap.com/reimagine to learn more. And by MileIQ. If you're one of the 60 million Americans who drive for work then you know your miles are your dollars. Every mile you don't log is money that you're losing. MileIQ is the only mileage-tracker app that detects, logs, and calculates your miles for you, ensuring that every mile is accounted for and no dollar is lost. Try MileIQ for free today by texting SLATEMONEY to 31996.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is brought to you by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. |
| 0:05.8 | Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a hundred-day period. |
| 0:10.0 | Get $50 towards any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com slash slate money and using the promo code, Slate Money. |
| 0:18.0 | And by SAPHana. |
| 0:19.9 | SAPHana helps the world's best companies get the answers they need |
| 0:23.1 | to become more agile, develop new streams of revenue, and predict the future. Run SAP and run simple. |
| 0:30.3 | Visit SAP.com slash reimagined to learn more. And by Mile IQ. If you're one of the 60 million |
| 0:36.6 | Americans who drive for work, then you know that your miles are your dollars. |
| 0:40.4 | Every mile you don't log is money that you're losing. |
| 0:43.2 | Mile IQ is the only mileage tracker app that detects, logs, and calculates your miles for you, |
| 0:48.6 | ensuring that every mile is accounted for and no dollar is lost. |
| 0:52.1 | Try Mile IQ for free today by texting Slate Money to 31996. That's Slate Money to 31996. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm Ezra Klein, host of the new Vox podcast, The Weeds. Every week I'm joined by Sarah Cliff and |
| 1:07.2 | Matthew Glacius for a podcast for people who follow politics because they care about and love policy. |
| 1:12.9 | We talk about health care, about economics, about the future of work. We get very nerdy. We get very into the weeds. |
| 1:19.0 | In a way, you won't hear anywhere else. So subscribe to the weeds now, wherever you get your podcasts or at iTunes.com slash panoply and join us for a discussion about what's really important in politics. |
| 1:33.6 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:42.0 | Hello and welcome to the Great Debate Edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 1:53.0 | This episode came together on Twitter as all the best episodes do. |
| 1:58.8 | We, all four of us, yes I said four, found ourselves in a Twitter canoe |
| 2:03.8 | a few weeks ago and decided that this episode was going to happen. So this, think of this is the |
| 2:10.9 | episode that social media began. I am, as you know, Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
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