The Migration Edition
Slate News
Slate Podcasts
4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs economist Suresh Naidu joins host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann to talk about the economics of migration.Topics discussed on today’s show include:The differences between migrants and refugees.H2 visas for unskilled workers – the new American slavery?How H1 visas for skilled workers also prevent economic growth. Slate Money is sponsored by Credit Karma. Don’t pay for your credit score! With Credit Karma, you can see your credit score, right now, absolutely free. Just text MONEY to 89800 to download the free Credit Karma app and get started.And by Goldman Sachs. Information about developments currently shaping markets, industries and the global economy, on the firm’s podcast, ‘Exchanges at Goldman Sachs,’ available on iTunes.And by Braintree. If you’re working on a mobile app and searching for a simple payments solution, check out Braintree. With one simple integration, you can offer your customers every way to pay. Period. To learn more, and for your first $50,000 in transactions fee-free, go to braintreepayments.com/slatemoney.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is sponsored by Credit Karma. |
| 0:03.0 | Don't pay for your credit score. |
| 0:05.6 | With Credit Karma, you can see your credit score right now, absolutely free. |
| 0:09.6 | Just text Money to 89800 to download the free Credit Karma app and get started. |
| 0:15.6 | Again, text the word money to 898000. |
| 0:20.6 | And we are sponsored by Goldman Sachs. |
| 0:25.0 | Information about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy on the phone's podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Exchanges at Goldman Sachs. |
| 0:33.1 | Look it up on iTunes. |
| 0:34.4 | It's genuinely a really good podcast. |
| 0:41.2 | And by Braintree. If you're working on an app and searching for a payment solution, check out BrainTree. Simple integration. You can offer your |
| 0:46.7 | customers every way to pay, period. To learn more and for $50,000 in fee-free transactions, |
| 0:54.0 | go to braintree payments.com slash slate money. |
| 1:04.1 | Hello and welcome to the migration edition of Slate Money. We pride ourselves here at Slate Money on talking about the |
| 1:16.7 | business and finance news of the week. And the business and finance news of the week is all |
| 1:21.6 | about the stock market. So we are not going to talk about the stock market at all. Because you've heard far too much about the stock |
| 1:28.8 | market and everything we could possibly say about the stock market, you have already heard |
| 1:32.9 | and it's all noise and you should just tune it all out. Ignore everything and pay attention |
| 1:38.8 | instead to our discussion this week, which is all about migration, immigration. |
| 1:45.6 | This is a hot issue, what with the Republican presidential primaries and what's not. |
| 1:51.9 | I am, of course, Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 1:54.9 | I am joined, as always, by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.