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Slate Money - The Win-Win Edition

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4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Slate Money on Winners Take All, Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia problem, and the alarming IPCC climate report on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Emily Peck, and Anand Giridharadas.

In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, Emily and Anand further discuss the people Anand talked to for his book.

Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck, @AnandWrites

Production by Max Jacobs.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the win-win edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

0:20.8

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I am joined as ever by Anna Shamansky.

0:25.1

Hello.

0:25.5

By Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. Hello.

0:28.5

And very excitingly, in a confluence of fabulousness that no one could have really organized. It just worked out this way.

0:38.0

This week, which is the best possible week for Anand Giridadas to come on this show,

0:43.1

is the week that Anand Giridadas has come on the show.

0:46.5

It is a true win-win.

0:48.3

It is a true win-win.

0:50.0

We are blessed.

0:51.3

Anand, you have a book out which we're going to talk about,

0:53.8

and we are also going to talk about the big things that we need to talk about this week,

0:58.4

which one of which is obviously the big IPCC report on global climate change,

1:04.2

which should be dominating all of the headlines all of the time.

1:07.7

But given the new cycle, seems to have been dominating like half of the headlines

1:11.5

for about five minutes. We are going to talk about this crazy Saudi situation and how big business

1:18.9

is reacting to it. And all of this is directly relevant to your book, which you now get to plug.

1:26.6

Is that the question?

1:28.3

Yeah, tell us the name of the book.

1:29.8

Plug the book.

1:30.9

So the book is called Winners Take All, the elite charade of changing the world.

1:36.8

And it's a book about how, trying to explain a paradox, which is that we live in this age of extraordinary elite generosity and rich people

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