The Shaking Things Up Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2015
⏱️ 46 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 discuss:How Asian countries have built better airportsThe shocking results of the UK electionHow to improve the Federal Reserve Slate Money is sponsored by Dropbox, trusted by people in over 4 million businesses worldwide to keep their files safe, synced, and easy to share with anyone. Try Dropbox for Business free for 14 days at dropbox.com/businessAnd by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period. And get 50 dollars toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com/slatemoney and using the promo code slatemoney.Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is sponsored by Dropbox, trusted by people in over 4 million businesses worldwide to keep their files safe, synced, and easy to share with anyone. |
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| 0:15.6 | And by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. |
| 0:21.0 | Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period. |
| 0:25.8 | And get $50 toward any mattress purchase by visiting casper.com slash slate money |
| 0:31.6 | and using the promo code Slate Money. |
| 0:34.7 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:42.6 | Hello, and welcome to the Shaking Things Up edition of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:49.8 | business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Sam on a Fusion. I'm joined, as always, by the celebratory Kathy O'Neill, who has just finished a draft of her book. We're going to talk about her book. Hi, Felix. When are we going to talk about your book, Kathy? Oh, my God. As soon as it comes out. Okay. Well, there is a book coming at some point. We also have the married Mr. Jordan Weissman. Yes, Mr. Jordan |
| 1:15.2 | Wash Weissman. No, we actually didn't hyphenate. I'm still just Jordan Weissman. Did you take your |
| 1:20.0 | name? No, no, God, no. We don't. We don't believe in such things. No, we're a good feminist |
| 1:25.3 | couple. Important question. What's the last name of your kid's going to be? If you have kids. |
| 1:29.2 | That's probably going to be Weissman. Although... But it's really hard to spell. It is, but actually, Wash is... I still can't spell it. Wash is surprisingly hard, too, because everyone tries to spell it as Walsh with an L in it. I don't know why, but that just happens to her all So we both constantly have misspellings. |
| 1:43.0 | You should just come up with a third name which is easy to spell for your kids. |
| 1:46.7 | Like Jordan W.W. happens to her all time. So we both constantly have misspellings. You should just come up with a third name which is easy to spell for your kids. |
| 1:46.7 | Like Jordan W.W. for Wash Wiseman. |
| 1:49.5 | W squared. |
| 1:50.5 | No. |
| 1:51.4 | No. |
| 1:53.7 | Did you get like matching W tattoos? |
| 1:56.2 | No, we haven't done that. |
| 1:58.0 | Don't think I didn't suggest it though. |
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