Slate Money - The Villains Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 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 the baddies of the week.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-Why Peter Thiel is funding Hulk Hogan's crusade against Gawker.
-The IMF says maybe Neoliberalism wasn't so great.
-Florida's failed algorithm for recidivism.
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| 0:00.0 | Slate Money is brought to you by bolinbranch.com, offering luxury betting at affordable prices. |
| 0:07.6 | Order right now and they'll give you 20% off plus free shipping. Get sheets, towels, blankets, duvet |
| 0:14.4 | covers and more at bowl and branch.com. That's B-O-L-L-A-N-D, B-R-A-N-C-H.com and use the promo code, money. |
| 0:27.4 | And by ZipRecruiter. |
| 0:29.2 | With a ZipRecruiter, you can post your job to more than 100 job sites with a single click and an interface that's easy to use. |
| 0:36.5 | And right now, you can try it for free. |
| 0:38.8 | Go to zipRecruiter.com slash money. And by Tracker, a coin-sized device that locates |
| 0:45.8 | misplaced keys, wallets, bags, computers, anything in seconds. Make losing things a thing of the past. |
| 0:53.5 | Get 30% off your entire order by going to the tracker.com. |
| 0:58.1 | That's the t-r-a-c-r-c-r.com and using the promo code money. |
| 1:04.4 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:12.7 | Hello. Welcome. explicit language. Hello, and welcome to the Villains edition of Slate Money. |
| 1:20.4 | This is going to be full of villainy. |
| 1:23.3 | It's going to be a good one this week. |
| 1:26.6 | The business and finance news of this week has been dominated by all manner of fantastic stuff. |
| 1:33.1 | So we're going to be talking about the evil billionaire Peter Thiel. |
| 1:37.4 | We're going to be talking about the evil international monetary fund, even the name sounds evil. |
| 1:44.8 | And we are going to be talking about people who've actually gone to prison for being villainous |
| 1:52.0 | and whether they are going to... |
| 1:56.6 | What's the word? |
| 1:59.9 | Reoffend. |
| 2:00.6 | Re-offend. Re-offend. |
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