The "Matching Gift" Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On episode 29 of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of Mathbabe.org, and Jordan Weissmann of Slate’s Moneybox discuss charities as venture capitalists, in the wake of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s $3 billion profit from a very expensive drug. And, Uber is disrupting the taxi business – and tracking your movements using a “God Mode” function. Plus: an assessment of Abenomics and our numbers round. Here are links to some of the topics mentioned during this week's show: The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s $3.3 billion deal for selling royalty rights for drugs to treat the disease. How “pay for performance” contracts with doctors could have a detrimental affect on health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	Hello and welcome to the matching gift episode of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance
0:56.5	News of the Week.
0:57.8	I'm Felix Salmon, a fusion in New York, and on today's show we will follow up last week's philanthropy special with a look
1:06.2	at charities of venture capitalists in the pharmaceutical industry.
1:11.4	We will also talk about Uber, because who isn't talking about Uber these days?
1:17.0	And finally, we will try to explain what's happening in Japan, where monetary policy and fiscal policy and this whole shebang called
1:25.4	arbonomics doesn't seem to be having quite the effect it was meant to be having
1:29.8	and of course we will then finally do our usual numbers lightning round.
1:35.0	I am joined back in the studio with a family reunion episode of slate money by the regular panelists Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at
1:47.1	MathBabe.org. Hello Kathy.
1:49.4	Hi Felix.
1:50.4	And Jordan Weisman of Slate's very own money box column.
1:55.6	It feels good to be back.
1:56.5	It is good to have you both back.
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