The Sports Week Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Why the UFC sold for 4 billion dollars -NBA salary cap, ode to unions -Will Rio survive the Olympics? Slate Money is brought to you by TrackR, a coin-sized device that locates misplaced keys, wallets, bags, computers—anything in seconds. Get 30 percent off your entire order by going to TheTracker.com and using the promo code MONEY. And by Goldman Sachs. To learn about developments currently shaping markets, industries, and the global economy, subscribe to the firm’s podcast, ‘Exchanges at Goldman Sachs,’ available on iTunes. And by Wunder Capital. Invest in large-scale solar projects across the U.S. 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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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello!
0:09.2	Welcome to the Sports Week edition of Slate Money,
0:15.0	your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:19.0	And this week, I'm not quite sure why, it's probably just happenstance. There's been a lot of
0:26.2	sporting news and to try and what's the word distract us from the utterly terrible everything is going on
0:35.8	everywhere in the world right now we've decided we're just going to talk about
0:39.6	sports this week because it's going to be a happy edition of Slate Money, three different
0:47.0	types of sports in particular, which we're going to talk to, we of course being
0:53.7	Jordan Weisman, the sport obsessed moneybox
0:57.1	columnist at Slade.
0:58.0	I don't know if this is going to be a happy episode, Felix.
1:00.3	We're going to talk,'s a perhaps a lighter episode.
1:03.0	A lighter.
1:04.0	A lighter. We are relative.
1:05.0	And Kathy O'Neill, the blogger at math babe.
1:09.0	Org and the data scientist who is also, we have learned in previous episodes a bit of a sports fan.
1:15.2	I am I am a huge sports fan although I have limits and we'll learn about this soon.
1:20.3	So what what I thought we would do this week because I'm incredibly organized this week.
1:26.2	We don't just throw this show together.
1:27.8	No.
1:28.8	Is split sports into two big buckets which are amateur and professional and we're going to talk
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