The Literary Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2015

⏱️ 45 minutes

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On this week’s episode writer Alissa Quart, editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of Monetized, schools host Felix Salmon and co-host Jordan Weissmann of Slate on the literary side of finance. This week’s episode was sponsored by Casper, an obsessively engineered mattress at a shockingly fair price. Get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting www.casper.com/slatemoney and using the offer code “slate money.” And also by Automatic, a connected car adapter that pairs your car to your smartphone that helps you diagnose engine problems, drive more efficiently, remember where you parked, and more. To get $20 off Automatic's price of $99.95 visit automatic.com/money. Love Slate podcasts? Listen longer with Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, ad-free versions, exclusive podcasts and more. Start your 2-week free trial at slate.com/podcastplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Slate Money is sponsored by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price.
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0:40.0	And get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting Casper.com slash slate money and using the promo code slate money.
0:47.5	And by automatic, the connected car adapter that pairs your car to your smartphone,
0:52.3	diagnose engine problems, drive more efficiently, adapter that pairs your car to your smartphone.
0:52.5	Diagnose engine problems, drive more efficiently,
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1:02.3	when you go to automatic.com slash money.
1:05.0	Hello and welcome to the literary edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
1:17.0	I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion and I'm joined as always by Slates Moneybox Colonist Jordan
1:23.0	Jordan and filling in for Kathy O'Neill
1:28.0	we have an extremely special guest.
1:31.0	Alyssa Quart is a writer, journalist, critic. She's the editor of the Economic
1:36.0	Hardware Reporting Project, which is Barbara Erren Reich's project, and most interestingly,
1:42.1	for today's purposes, she is also a poet and she has a new book of poetry out called Monetized
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