The Hot Mess Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann talks to English economist and author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, Tim Harford. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford. -Warren Buffett's Taxes -Contract Theory in the wake of the Nobel Prize awarded. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Production by Veralyn Williams. We want you to tell us about the podcasts you enjoy, and how often you listen to them. So we created a survey that takes just a couple of minutes to complete. If you fill it out, you'll help Panoply to make great podcasts about the things you love. And things you didn’t even know you loved. To fill out the survey, just go to www.megaphone.fm/survey. ---- Slate Money is brought to you by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. Get 50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by going to Casper.com/slatemoney and using the promo code slatemoney. And by ZipRecruiter. Post your job to all the top job sites with a single click. Try it for free by going to ZipRecruiter.com/money. And by Betterment, the largest independent automated investing service. Learn how you can get up to six months of NO FEES by going to Betterment.com/slatemoney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:33.2	Hello and welcome to the Hot Mess edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:48.0	I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. We have the whole team here. We have Kathy O'Neill, the author of Weapons of Math Destruction, the National Book Award
0:58.9	long-listed amazing tome.
1:01.3	Hello?
1:02.3	We have Jordan Weisman who was not drowned in Orlando and is back safe
1:07.0	and sound in sunny Brooklyn. I'm back baby. And most excitingly we have the best writer of books in the history of
1:15.9	orthodum. It's true. Mr. Tim Harvard.
1:19.1	Hello Felix.
1:20.0	Hello Tim. You have written how many books?
1:24.0	This is number six.
1:25.6	When I say this, I mean messy.
1:28.4	The power of disorder to transform our lives.
1:31.6	We got that in in didn't we? We are going to talk about
1:39.1	messy the power of disorder to transform our lives very soon on slate money.
1:45.0	But first of all, like just tell us who you are.
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