The Optimism Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2016

⏱️ 54 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, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann and special guest, Laura Arnold the Co-Chair of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation discuss the economics of Philanthropy. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Criminal-justice data and algorithms -The responsibility of philanthropy -Philanthropy in the age of Trump Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann, @LauraArnoldFdn Production by Veralyn Williams and Mary Wilson Slate Money is brought to you by HP. Their Business line of products are travel tested and perfect for on-the-go or in the office. Go to hp.com/slate and enter code slate at checkout for 30 percent off select HP Business products. And by Goldman Sachs. To learn about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy, subscribe to the firm’s podcast, Exchanges at Goldman Sachs, available on iTunes. And by Betterment, the largest independent automated investing service. Learn how you can get up to six months of NO FEES by going to Betterment.com/slatemoney. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:33.2	Hello! And welcome to the optimism edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance
0:50.1	news of the week.
0:51.4	I'm Felix Hammond of Fusion and I have been persuaded by my special
0:57.1	guest this week to be optimistic. I have I was hanging out with a optimist
1:02.1	last night. I am now hanging out in Sleep Money Studios
1:07.2	with an optimist. So I feel like on this Thanksgiving edition of Slate Money.
1:12.8	We are going to try our hardest in the midst of a brutal year
1:17.0	to have a sliver of hope and optimism.
1:20.1	We will not give in to paranoia.
1:23.4	That's the alternative title of the episode.
1:26.4	I am joined, as ever by Kathy O'Neill,
1:30.5	the author of Weapons of Meth Destruction.
1:33.0	Hello?
1:34.0	By Jordan Weisman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate.
1:38.0	I kind of wanted to call this the No Surrender Edition is a Bruce tribute.
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