The Hedge Funds Behaving Badly Edition

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Sheelah Kolhatkar, New Yorker staff writer and author of Black Edge, discuss the turmoil at Bridgewater Management, how a hedge funder tried to take down Herbalife, and the insider trading allegations covered in Black Edge. Slate Money is brought to you by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses. Get 50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by going to Casper.com/SlateMoney and using the promo code Casper.com/SlateMoney And by Freshbooks. FreshBooks has launched an all new version of their cloud accounting software so you can spend more time doing the work you love, and less time stressing over your paperwork. For your 30 day free trial, go to FreshBooks.com/Slatemoney and enter Slatemoney in the how did you hear about us section. And by ZipRecruiter. Post your job listing to all the top job sites with a single click. Try it for free by going to ZipRecruiter.com/Money Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:33.4	Hello and welcome to the
0:40.2	Hello and welcome to the hedge funds behaving badly episode of sleep money is it an
0:49.6	addition or an episode I can never remember. Edition.
0:53.0	It's the Hedge Funds Behaving Badly Edition.
0:56.4	The reason we are going to talk about Hedge Funds, Hedge Funds and Hedge Funds
0:59.7	is because we have the most special guest in the world right here.
1:05.0	I am Felix Salmon of Fusion.
1:06.8	I'm joined by Jordan Weisman of Slate.
1:10.4	I am also joined by the chief feature writer at Portfolio Rep magazine Sheila Koletka.
1:18.0	Wait, that's not your job anymore.
1:21.0	That's several jobs ago.
1:23.2	Sheila and I used to work at Portfolio back in a million years ago.
1:26.9	Pre-financial crisis.
1:28.6	Pre-financial crisis.
1:29.6	A different world.
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