The Munchkin Edition

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4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2016

⏱️ 38 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, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discus Trump’s economic team. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Steven Mnuchin, Donald Trump's choice for Treasury -Carrier whose $7 million tax break to keep jobs in state was celebrated by Trump -Wilbur Ross, Billionaire investor Trump taps for Commerce Secretary Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected]: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Production by Veralyn Williams. --- 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 Audible. Explore Audible’s unmatched selection of audiobooks, original audio shows, news, comedy, and more. Get a free audiobook with a 30 day trial at Audible.com/money. And by Blue Apron.Blue Apron’s meal kits are delivered right to your door, and make cooking at home easy. Get your first THREE meals FREE by going to BlueApron.com/money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.2	Hello! and welcome to the Munchkin edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance
0:48.5	news of the week.
0:49.7	I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. I'm joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the author of Weapons of Math
0:57.5	Destruction. Hi. And Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman.
1:03.8	Hello, glad to be here.
1:05.1	And this week's topics were pretty easy and obvious for us
1:10.9	because this was the week when Donald Trump basically rolled out his entire
1:16.0	economic team or at least the most important bits of it. Specifically the Commerce Secretary,
1:21.7	the Finance Minister, and oh yeah and he wound up doing
1:27.2	exactly what he said he would do on the campaign trail and saved a bunch of jobs in Indiana.
1:33.5	We're going to talk about all of this.
1:34.8	Wait, Felix, you just referred to the Treasury Secretary as the Finance Minister.
1:38.4	How euro can you get right now?
1:40.6	He is the Finance Minister.
1:42.1	I know, but we're not sitting in the middle of Brussels right now. We're in America. We're in Trump country. He's the Treasury Secretary.
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