Slate Money - The Time's Up Edition
Slate News
Slate Podcasts
4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2016
⏱️ 50 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 discuss things coming to an end.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-Failures in the gig economy, and our changing workforce
-Spotify's deal with the devil
-Ang Bang loses its bid for Starwood hotels
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| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is brought to you by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price. |
| 0:08.4 | Casper mattresses come with free delivery and returns within a 100-day period. |
| 0:13.7 | And get $50 towards any mattress purchased by visiting casper.com slash slate money and using the promo code slate money. |
| 0:23.3 | And by Harries, the shaving company that offers German engineered blades, |
| 0:28.6 | well-designed handles, and shipping right to your door. |
| 0:32.1 | Visit Harries.com for $5 off your first purchase with the promo code money. |
| 0:37.9 | And by Ring. |
| 0:39.3 | With Ring Video Doorbell, you can see and speak to anyone at your door from anywhere in the world using your smartphone. |
| 0:47.5 | Slate Money listeners get free expedited FedEx shipping when you go to ring.com slash money. With ring video doorbell, you're always home. |
| 1:02.3 | Hello and welcome to the Times Up edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. |
| 1:15.7 | I'm joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org. |
| 1:21.8 | Hi. |
| 1:22.3 | You've been reading all manner of research about the gig economy. |
| 1:27.1 | We're going to try and talk about the entire gig economy without mentioning that word beginning with you. That's the task. No, that's not happening. I'm 100% going to undermine that goal today. Okay. Well, you know, this is once again. That's what we do. We set goals and undermine them. Yeah, we're really self-sabitized. Okay. |
| 1:44.6 | But I'm just going to throw something at Jordan every time he says that word. Or maybe I'll kick him under the table because we are recording from a smaller studio where I can kick Jordan under the table. It's very cozy here. It's cozy. Instead of throwing things in my direction. Yeah, the guy who's going to be undermining this entire episode is Jordan Weissman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate. |
| 2:03.7 | Glad to be here. |
| 2:04.6 | And he. things in my direction. Yeah, the guy who's going to be undermining this entire episode is |
| 2:01.1 | Jordan Weissman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate. Glad to be here and ruining the fun. |
| 2:06.0 | He has a contrarian take on unicorn financing. And I am going to be talking about escrow |
| 2:15.7 | accounts and PRC acquisition protocols. |
| 2:18.7 | And actually, no, I'm not going to be talking about hotels and takeovers and stuff. |
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