The Size Matters Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2016

⏱️ 45 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 talk big data. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Verizon buys Yahoo for 4.8 billion -MSCI CEO study shows the highest-paid CEO’s run the worst-performing companies -Who’s profiting in the digital advertising economy? Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Production by Veralyn Williams. Slate Money is brought to you by Blue Apron. Blue Apron’s meal kits are delivered right to your door, and make cooking at home easy. Get your first THREE meals FREE by going to BlueApron.com/money. And by Open Account, a podcast that gets personal about making, losing, and living with money. Created by Umpqua Bank and hosted by SuChin Pak, download and subscribe to Open Account wherever you get your podcasts. And by Wunder Capital. Invest in large-scale solar project across the US. Create an account for free at WunderCapital.com/money. Invest in Wunder Capital’s solar funds. Do well and do good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.2	Hello! And welcome to the size matters edition of Slate Money.
0:45.0	Your guide to the business and finance news of an amazing week.
0:51.0	I'm Felix Salmon and Fusion and I'm joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the blogger at math babe.org.
0:58.0	Hello Felix. I'm joined by Jordan Weisman who's normally the slate moneybox columnist who seems to have like
1:05.0	disappeared into a political you know hole yeah forecast couple of weeks so if if Jordan seems a little bit out of it,
1:13.9	it's because he's been worrying about silly things
1:17.0	like politics, which we try very hard not
1:19.9	to talk about on this show.
1:21.2	You're welcome. Politics and religion. Well, no, we talk about on this show you're welcome. Politics and religion. Well now we talk about religion on this show.
1:25.0	Yeah we...
1:26.0	Not very convincing.
1:28.0	Not very convincing. Apparently not according to the emails we got afterwards.
1:32.0	We are going to talk about CEO Pay this week. It's one of
1:37.1	everyone's favorite topics but we haven't covered it much recently so we'll talk
1:41.4	about that. We're going to talk about the New York
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