The Hothouse Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2016

⏱️ 42 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 Weisman breakdown how things are heating up with the HFC deal, proposed NYC Airbnb regulations, and the Volcker Rule. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -The hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) deal to phase down global climate-warming -The proposed Airbnb crack downs on New York City hosts -How a Goldman Sachs trader can make $100 million in the Volcker Rule era Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Production by Veralyn Williams. --- Slate Money is brought to you by MeUndies. For comfortable underwear that makes a statement, go to MeUndies.com/money and you’ll get 20 percent off your first order. And by HP. Their Business line of products are travel tested and perfect for on-the-go or in the office. Go to hp.com/slate and enter code slate at checkout for 30 percent off select HP Business products. 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.
0:37.2	Hello!
0:39.2	And welcome to the Hot House Edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:48.7	I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. I'm joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the author of Weapons of Math Destruction.
0:56.0	Hello?
0:57.0	See what she did there. And also Jordan Weisman, the Money talking about Abbey and be talking about
1:08.3	Abbey and B which is doing may or may not be doing interesting things in New York City.
1:13.7	We are going to be talking about Goldman Sachs, the great vampire squid, and their proprietary
1:21.8	trading and or market making, and whether there's a difference in the
1:24.5	Volker rule and all that are sexy stuff thereabouts but first I want to talk
1:31.1	about hydrofluorcarbons.
1:34.0	Yeah, say that ten times first.
1:36.0	That is a sexy, sexy phrase.
1:39.0	Hydrofluoroc cannons, well, they would eat, well, I mean we can call them HFCs.
1:44.0	Okay, let's do it.
1:45.0	That's easier.
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