Slate Money - The Occupy French Starbucks Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Rob Cox from Breakingviews joins Emily, Felix, and Anna to discuss Teslas finally being cheaper, Kraft & 3G, Facebook’s Content Moderation Failures, and the political scene in France.
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CNN:Tesla debuts long-awaited $35,000 Model 3
The Verge: The Trauma FloorVanity Fair: Men are Scum: Inside Facebook’s War on Hate Speech
The Atlantic: Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
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In the Slate Plus segment: is work the new religion?
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck, @rob1cox
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Occupy French Starbucks edition of Slate Money, |
| 0:18.2 | your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:24.4 | As ever, Anna Shamansky is here. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello. |
| 0:26.7 | And Emily Beck of the Huffington Post. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello. |
| 0:29.5 | And we have a bona fide Frenchman. |
| 0:32.7 | We have a man who is French from his well-quaffed hair to his very toes, Mr. Rob Cox of breaking views. |
| 0:40.0 | Bonjour. |
| 0:42.0 | Rob Cox is not actually French, but you live in Paris now. |
| 0:47.1 | And you are going to tell us all about what's been going on with the yellow vest for us. |
| 0:51.4 | You insist on calling them because you're now French. |
| 0:54.0 | They're gillet jeal jean. You are going to help us understand what has been going on with Tesla this week |
| 1:03.8 | and why they have suddenly seemed seemingly cared much more about cost cuttingcutting of late than growth. |
| 1:12.5 | We are going to talk about Facebook and their moderation and how well it's going. |
| 1:17.6 | Spoiler alert, not very. |
| 1:20.2 | And we're going to talk a bit about a bit more, I should say, about 3G, which is this, you know, international quasi-Brazilian company, |
| 1:30.8 | which bought Kraft Heinz and wound up not doing very well with it. |
| 1:36.0 | And it's going to be like a super gnarly, interesting, awesome episode of Slate Money. |
| 1:41.3 | So all of that plus, if you're a Slate Plus member, existentialism from |
| 1:47.7 | Emily Peck about, you know, she's coming over all Jean-Paul Sartre. You have no idea. |
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