The We’re Not Drunk, We’re Multi-Billionaires Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

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🗓️ 22 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Billion Dollar Whale, multi-billion dollar heists, sovereign wealth funds, and the trade war with China on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Emily Peck, and Tom Wright. In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, Emily and Tom discuss the epic partying and celebrity relationships of Jho Low. Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck, @TomWrightAsia Production by Max Jacobs. Listen to Slate Money via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the We're Not Drunk, we're Multibillionaires edition of Slate Money,
0:20.4	Your Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:24.0	I'm Felix Simon of Axios.
0:26.0	I'm joined as ever by Anna Schmansky.
0:28.0	Hello?
0:29.0	And by Emily Peck of The Huffington Post.
0:32.0	Hello. And most exciting. Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. Hello!
0:33.0	And most excitingly, by Mr. Tom Wright of the Wall Street Journal.
0:39.0	Hello?
0:40.0	Welcome.
0:41.0	Tom has written, what I want to say is the most rollicking business book of the year.
0:48.2	It is up there with whatever latest JK Raouling thing just came out and it's all non-fiction it's great it is called
0:56.8	billion dollar whale
0:57.9	billion dollar whale which we were just having a discussion about whether we
1:01.9	understand what that means. It's basically about this
1:05.2	guy, Jo Lo, who gambled a lot and if you gamble a lot the casinos call you a whale.
1:11.3	So that's the explanation for the book title, if you are confused by the book title.
1:17.4	The explanation for the podcast title, if you're confused by that, is going to be revealed in Slate Plus.
1:25.0	But we are going to talk about Tom's book.
1:28.0	We are going to talk about Flaud and Melfeasance and sculledudgery in the world of sovereign wealth funds and
1:38.1	international finance. It's going to be a juicy episode. We're going to talk about Paris Hilton. We're going to talk
1:46.2	about Kaniy West. We're going to talk about... Leonardo DiCaprio.
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