The Peer Pressure Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss loans and investments. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -There's trouble at the Lending Club. -Google pulls all payday loans ads. -Why public pensions are still investing in hedge funds. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Slate Money is brought to you by Texture, the mobile app that gives you full access to more than 150 of the world's most popular magazines, anytime, using your phone or tablet. Read Vogue, People, Esquire, Time—and hundreds more—from back issues to the one currently on the newsstand. Right now, try Texture for free at Texture.com/slatemoney. And by ZipRecruiter. With ZipRecruiter, you can post your job to more than 100 job sites with a single click and an interface that's easy to use. And right now, you can try it for free! Go to ZipRecruiter.com/slatemoney. And by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. All Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period. Get 50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by visiting Casper.com/slatemoney and using the promo code SLATEMONEY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Slate Money is brought to you by Texture, the mobile app that gives you full access to more the 150 of the world's most popular magazines, anytime, using your phone or tablet.
0:41.0	Read Vogue, People, Esquire, Time, and hundreds more, from back issues
0:46.7	to the one currently on the newsstand. Right now, try Texture for free at texture.com slash slate money and by zip recruiter.
0:57.2	With zip recruiter you can post your job to more than 100 job sites with a single
1:01.6	click and an interface that's easy to use.
1:04.0	And right now you can try it for free.
1:07.0	Go to zip recruiter.com slash slate money.
1:10.0	And by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price.
1:17.2	All Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period.
1:22.2	Get $50 towards any mattress purchase by visiting Casper.com slash slate money
1:27.5	and using the promo code slate money. Hello and welcome to the peer pressure edition of Sleep Money, your Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
1:47.3	My name is Felix Salmon of Fusion and I am joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at math babe.org
1:57.0	As well as Slates Moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman.
2:02.0	You're looking ravishing this morning. I'm looking
2:04.8	awesome this morning. I'm pretty in pink. I'm just you guys are really missing out
2:10.3	when you're listening for this. He's wearing a very sexy short-sleeved button down. Let me tell you...
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