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Slate Money

The Occupy French Starbucks Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2019

⏱️ 44 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. [ul] 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 [/ul] In the Slate Plus segment: is work the new religion? Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck, @rob1cox Podcast production by Max Jacobs. Listen to Slate Money via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play. This episode is brought to you by Transferwise. Check them out today at transferwise.com/money Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.1

Hello and welcome to the Occupy French Starbucks edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

0:21.3

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. As ever, Anna Shimanski is here.

0:26.2

Hello? And Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

0:28.9

Hello. And we have a bonafide Frenchman. We have a Frenchman who is French from his well quaffed hair to his very toes,

0:37.4

Mr Rob Cox of breaking views.

0:39.8

Bonjour.

0:41.8

Rob Cox is not actually French, but you live in Paris now.

0:47.0

And you are going to tell us all about what's been going on with the yellow vest for so you insist on calling them because you're now French

0:53.8

there's gilégien.

0:55.0

You are going to help us understand what has been going on with Tesla this week and why they have suddenly

1:05.9

seemingly cared much more about cost-cutting of late than growth. We are going to talk about Facebook and their moderation

1:16.2

and how well it's going. spoiler alert not very. And we're going to talk a bit

1:21.7

about a bit more I should say about 3G which is this

1:27.8

You know international quasi-Brazilian company which bought Kraft Heinz and wound up not doing very well with it and it's

1:36.7

kind of 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,

1:46.5

Existentialism from Emily Peck about, you know, she's coming over all Jean-Paul Sart,

1:51.5

you have no idea. This is going to be a good one so stay tuned. This is all coming up on slate money.

2:00.0

So the big news of this week or or one of the big news, as teased by Elon Musk on his

2:06.0

Twitter account in a tweet that may or may not have violated the agreement with the SEC was that he is going to actually sell the model 3 for $35,000,

2:20.0

which he kept on saying he was going to do it and never did it was always much more expensive

2:24.0

like when he started telling it it was over 70,000 dollars and everyone was like this is the

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