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Slate Money

The Up In The Air Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3988 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today on Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of, Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann devote the whole episode to aviation and discuss: United Airlines’ new Basic Economy fareTrump’s plan to personally renegotiate Boeing’s Air Force One bidSilicon Valley’s shift from producing ones and zeros to actual stuff, including drones Come have a beer with us! Slate Money goes live for a special craft beer episode at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 15 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Tickets are $25. Go to slate.com/live for tickets and more information. Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected]: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann Production by Zachary Dinerstein 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 Wunder Capital. Earn up to 8.5 percent annually, while diversifying your portfolio, curbing pollution, and combating global climate change. Create an account for free at WunderCapital/com/money. Wunder Capital. Do well and do good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the up in the Air edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance

0:49.8

News of the Week.

0:51.7

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion.

0:54.0

I'm joined here in Slate Brooklyn offices by the regular crew Kathy O'Neill, the author of

1:00.9

Weapons of Math Destruction, and Jordan Weisman, the slate pitchiest moneybox

1:07.0

colonist ever.

1:09.0

Halla y'all.

1:10.8

And Jordan wrote a piece this week, which we're going to talk about in a minute,

1:15.4

and which was all about airline travel.

1:18.6

So we're going to have a kind of air-themed episode this week.

1:25.0

We're going to talk about how it turns out to be quite hard

1:29.8

for software companies like Google or even Amazon to put physical objects into the air and have them not

1:37.6

crash.

1:38.6

It's rather a fun story.

1:41.4

We are going to talk about Air Force One, which is a the in the news but first Jordan the one thing we all are obsessing about as the holiday

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