The Spinning Wheels Edition

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4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann discuss: - The auto industry as an indicator of a slowing economy - Artificial intelligence as the next big innovation - Apple’s new headquarters Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: [email protected]: @felixsalmon,@Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann Production by Daniel Schroeder. --Felix Salmon is a senior editor at Fusion.--Anna Szymanski is an emerging markets expert and senior strategy officer at a political risk startup.--Jordan Weissmann is Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the spinning wheels edition of Slate Money, your guide to the
0:18.4	Business and Finance News of the Week. There are round things on the show this week. I am Felix
0:27.2	Amina Fusion. I am joined as ever by Anna Shimanski. Hello.
0:31.4	Who was born in Detroit? Detroit. I am also joined by Jordan Weisman.
0:37.0	Round things on the show include your glasses right now. I'm wearing round glasses. I am going to be talking about a round building which has just opened up in
0:48.3	Cupertino, California at a cost of $5 billion. I am also going to be talking to these lovely people about
0:59.1	artificial intelligence is it the new mobile I don't even know what that means but
1:04.2	apparently that's what Google says we're all going to be doing so we need to
1:09.1	start putting our futurist hats on and trying to work out whether we're all going to be just
1:14.4	talking to devices in the future. But Anna, for all that she was born in Detroit, has not got a
1:21.8	driver's license.
1:22.6	So that means that it is down to Jordan.
1:25.4	But you really don't have a driver's license?
1:26.4	I don't have a driver's license now.
1:27.8	Even I, I grew in Manhattan.
1:30.0	I failed my driver's test three times.
1:31.8	I spent high school getting rides from other people and being very annoying.
1:35.0	I one time failed my driver's test because I talked too much.
1:38.0	Like literally he told me at the end he's like you you just talked too much.
1:42.0	And you really didn't learn your lesson.
1:43.3	No I didn't.
1:44.3	I'm now talking on to you right now dear listener.
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