The Pet Cause Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, discuss:The bizarre circumstances surrounding Arconic CEO Klaus Kleinfeld’s resignation.Portland’s radical decision to divest from all corporations.How PetSmart is acquiring Chewy in the largest e-commerce acquisition in retail history. Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @JHWeissmann, @Three_Guineas Production by Zachary Dinerstein. Slate Money is brought to you by Blue Apron. Create delicious, home-cooked meals with fresh ingredients delivered right to your door. Get your first THREE meals FREE when you go to BlueApron.com/MONEY And by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. When it comes to the big decision of choosing a mortgage lender, work with one that has your best interests in mind. Use Rocket Mortgage for a transparent, trustworthy home loan process that’s completely online at QuickenLoans.com/SlateMoney. And by ZipRecruiter. Post your job on all the top job sites with a single click. Try ZipRecruiter for FREE by going to ZipRecruiter.com/MONEY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Revolute. Revolute is your perfect travel
0:04.6	companion for all things money. You can spend in over 150 currencies with great
0:09.6	exchange rates and withdraw from ATMs all over the world with no charges from
0:14.3	Revolute within your plan allowance. Sign up to Revolute at Revolute.com
0:18.3	slash podcast reward and receive 20 pounds when you make your first purchase with Revolute.
0:23.6	Until 18-plus, T's and C supply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply.
0:29.3	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:35.2	Hello!
0:37.2	And welcome to the Pet Cause edition of Slate Money.
0:43.0	Your Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:47.0	I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion.
0:49.0	I'm joined here by
0:54.0	Wasteh moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman
0:55.0	hello by woman about town Anna Schmanski
1:00.0	Hello
1:01.0	who sadly is not going to talk about anything emerging
1:04.6	well we probably will there will probably be something emerging markets in
1:09.2	here but we will yeah we will talk about more wonderful things this week. We're going to be talking about this is great. I don't know if you've heard about this.
1:16.7	But the city of Portland has decided to divest from all corporate securities. We're going to talk about what that means
1:24.2	because it's kind of awesome. I love it. We're going to talk about the second coming
1:29.6	of pets.com. No sockp pets. And there were fewer sock puppets, but like...
1:37.0	More money.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.