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Slate Money

The Hogmanay Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3988 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss: • The economics of partying on New Years Eve in Times Square • The risky side of derivatives trading • Warren Buffett and predatory lending Read about the Gaussian copula function in Felix's piece for Wired. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @Felix salmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Podcast production by Zachary Dinerstein Slate Money is brought to you by TaxAct. File simple federal and state returns for free by visiting TaxAct.com/slate. TaxAct will guide you through every step of the process—using your computer, tablet or phone—and get you the maximum refund, guaranteed. And by Texture, the mobile app that lets you tap directly into the world's most popular magazines, anywhere, using your phone or tablet. Dive deeper into Vogue, People, Esquire, Time — and hundreds more — with interactive content for a richer reading experience. Right now, try Texture for free at Texture.com/money. And by MileIQ. If you're one of the 60 million Americans who drive for work then you know that your miles are your dollars. Every mile you don't log is money that you are 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Slate Money is brought to you by Tax Act.

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File simple federal and state returns for free by visiting Tax Act.

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Tax Act will guide you through every step of the process,

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using your computer, tablet, or phone and get you the maximum

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refund guaranteed. That's Tax Act.com slash slate. And by Texture, the mobile app that lets you tap directly into the world's most popular magazines anywhere using your phone or tablet.

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Dive deeper into Vogue, People Esquire Time, and hundreds more, with interactive content for a richer reading experience.

1:06.6

Right now, try Texture for free at texture.com slash money. That's Texture.com slash money. And by Mile IQ. If you're one of the 60 million

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Americans who drive for work, then you know that your miles are your dollars.

1:20.4

Every mile you don't log is money that you're losing.

1:23.3

Mile IQ is the only mileage tracker app that detects, logs, and calculates your miles

1:28.1

for you, ensuring that every mile is accounted for and no dollar is lost. Try Mile IQ for free today by

1:35.0

texting slate money to 31996. That's slate money to 31996.

1:42.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

1:50.0

Hello people, happy new year it is 2016 and it's going to be an amazing year isn't

1:56.8

it is it can only get better from here on it we have already been talking about our amazing New Year's Resolution edition of Slate Money,

2:08.0

which with all goes according to plan is going to happen next week.

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