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Slate Money - The Sovereign Debt Reminiscences Edition

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Rusal sanctions, lawyers, and credit default swaps on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and Matt Levine. 

Production work by Daniel Schroeder


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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:14.3

Hello and welcome to the sovereign debt reminiscences Edition of Slate.

0:21.1

Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

0:25.0

It is a very, very special week this week because we have not only Anna Schumanski and myself, Felix Hammond, talking about things, but we have managed to rope in the one and only Matt Levine.

0:36.9

Hello, Matt.

0:37.5

Hey, Felix. Matt do you feel like?

0:38.8

Matt writes the world's best newsletter for Bloomberg View.

0:42.9

And Matt knows everything there is to know about being a lawyer, being a banker, credit default swaps, and all these.

0:51.5

Oh, and also overnight financing rates.

0:56.6

This is going to be a super nerdy edition of Slate Money.

1:01.0

It's going to be loads of fun.

1:03.1

And we're going to talk about all of this stuff.

1:05.0

And we're going to ask Matt just how much money he could possibly have made had he stayed a lawyer instead of becoming a journalist.

1:14.1

And Matt is going to tell us in Slate Plus all about overnight financing rates.

1:20.1

And we are, Matt, are we not in the post-labor era now?

1:25.2

Kind of, not really.

1:26.1

We're at the beginning of the end of the library era.

1:29.0

At the beginning of the post-library era.

1:31.0

This is...

1:31.5

But a weekend.

1:32.3

There's going to be like a whole new libel.

1:35.7

We're going to talk about that in Slate Plus.

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