The Turning Point Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Senior Finance Correspondent at Business Insider, Linette Lopez (@lopezlinette). Topics discussed on today’s show include: -What the lending firm, Point, is pitching to homeowners. -A new Census report that shows a 5.2% jump in 2015 U.S. median household incomes. -Why Bayer, Monsanto shareholders are not happy about an over $57 Billion deal. 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 ZipRecruiter. Post your job to all the top job sites with a single click. Try it for free by going to ZipRecruiter.com/money. And by Betterment, the largest independent automated investing service. Learn how you can get up to six months of NO FEES by going to Betterment.com/slatemoney. And by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans. Rocket Mortgage brings the mortgage process into the twenty-first century with an easy online process. Check out Rocket Mortgage today at QuickenLoans.com/slatemoney. Equal housing lender. Licensed in all 50 states. N-M-L -S consumer access dot org number 3030. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.2	Hello! And welcome to the turning point edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance
0:48.4	news of the week.
0:49.8	I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. I'm
0:53.0	joined by Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman
0:56.0	Hello.
0:57.0	And because Kathy O'Neill is on book tour,
1:01.0	by popular demand, we feature the return of...
1:05.0	Hi, it's Lynette. Hi, I'm very excited to be here and to hear that I had a popular demand.
1:12.0	Thank you.
1:13.0	Lynette Lopez, ladies and gentlemen,
1:16.0	the senior finance correspondent at Business Insider, the host of,
1:21.0	what's your podcast?
1:22.0	It's called Hard Pass. it's called a hard purse and it's much
1:26.9	shorter than slate money so you can squeeze it in between episodes of slate money right
1:31.1	like just in case you only want six minutes of me screaming in your
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