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Slate Money

The Well-Endowed Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3988 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political-risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss: Corruption in Saudi Arabia Wilbur Ross University endowments and the Paradise Papers In Slate Plus: Stealing the World Cup from Qatar. If you’d like to leave us a voicemail for our December call-in show, call (347) 960-6314. Email: [email protected]:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the well-endowed edition of Slate Money, your guide to the

0:52.2

business and finance news of the Week.

0:55.7

I'm Felix Hammond and Fusion, I'm here with Anna Shimanski and Jordan Weisman.

1:01.3

Hello.

1:02.3

Hey everyone. And we are going to be talking about Saudi Arabia because it is the biggest

1:08.1

news of the week the unbelievable purge that Prince Mohammed bin Sultan has affected in the desert kingdom.

1:20.0

It's kind of amazing what he's managed to do. We will talk about that. We will talk about

1:24.8

Wilbur Ross. It's kind of a big deal when the Commerce Secretary has a

1:32.0

massive scandal and he has managed to have like three of them in one week.

1:36.9

So the fact that he even still has a job is kind of amazing.

1:40.4

We're going to talk about that and one of those scandals came from the Paradise Papers,

1:48.1

you may have seen the Paradise Papers, which also will give us a lovely little segue for the Felix and Anna great endowment debate which was teased last week

2:00.0

shall continue in its own segment this week and we will actually try and take it slowly and not make

2:07.0

any shortcuts and try and work out who's saying what because it's an important issue and there's probably going to be a Slate Plus segment too.

2:15.9

We might talk about Ether or maybe we'll talk about Cutter.

2:19.6

You'll have to listen to it to find out.

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