The Revolting Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann take on revolting capitalists in every sense of the words: subprime auto loans, the political party of CEOs, and the Guardian's campaign for climate change divestment. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up today at slate.com/moneyplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.3	Hello and welcome to the revolting edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:46.5	I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion and I'm joined by my regular and awesome pants guests. There's Kathy O'Neill the blogger at math babe
0:56.4	dot org hi Felix hi Kathy and there's sleet's moneybox columnist Jordan
1:01.2	Weisman you know Felix at some point I'm going to go back through all of our archive and tally up the number of times you have said awesome pants in the course of this show. It might be my number of the week at some point. You do that. You can come up with an awesome pants to episode ratio.
1:17.0	Revolting, what am I talking about? We are talking about the boom in subprime auto loans, which sounds a bit skivy and Kathy is going to examine
1:26.8	whether indeed it is skivy I suspect maybe it's not as skivy as it looks we'll talk about
1:32.1	political party of CEOs. That's an interesting
1:35.1	phrase that came from Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, who is part of this big
1:41.0	push that corporate America is making against the quote
1:45.5	religious freedom laws of Arkansas and Indiana which seem to be aimed at the
1:50.8	gaze and then finally we will talk about the stand being taken by The Guardian, the British newspaper,
1:58.0	which is pretty big over here too, which just became a very big backer of climate change investment. All that is to come, but first, Kathy O'Neill,
2:08.8	Yes. Tell us what is happening when I buy my car and I don't have much money.
2:12.4	Well, okay, so... happening when I buy my car and I don't have much money.
2:13.0	Well, okay, so here's the thing.
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