The Powell's Books Edition

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4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: The Republican tax plan The opioid crisis and the Sackler family Incoming Federal Reserve Board Chair Jay Powell In Slate Plus: Pass-through income, and what happened in Kansas If you’d like to leave us a voicemail for our December call-in show, ring us at (347) 960-6314. Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: [email protected] Twitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Powell's books edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week where we have tax cuts.
0:59.0	Or we don't have tax cuts yet, but the Republicans have come out with 430 odd pages of proposals for
1:06.7	tax cuts and we have read all of them.
1:10.1	Not even a little bit.
1:11.1	Not even close.
1:12.1	Probably more than Donald Trump has. But I am Felix Howon the Fusion.
1:15.0	I am here to help you navigate the thicket that is this proposed new tax code. I am joined as ever by Jordan Weisman and Anna Shimanski.
1:25.8	Hello?
1:26.8	Hello people.
1:27.8	Hello.
1:28.8	We are going to be talking about the new Fed Chair, Mr. J. Powell. We are going to be talking about
1:37.9	opioids and OxyContin and the Sackler family and a really good extremely long article that you should
1:46.6	probably read in the latest issue of the New Yorker.
1:50.4	But first, we are going to talk about taxes because I have a kind of rule on this show
1:58.5	that we don't talk about vapor wear and we don't talk about legislation until it's actually legislation
2:03.7	because you know all manner of things get proposed to all manner of times but this is a
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