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Slate Money - The World is Falling Apart

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week Ben Hubbard, author of “MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman”, joins Felix, Emily, and Anna to discuss the global economic effects of the Coronavirus, the oil situation in the Middle East and the pros and cons of working from home. 


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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to the world is falling apart edition of sleep money, your guide to the business and finance news of a week, which seems to have lasted

0:22.4

for a few decades at least.

0:25.0

This has been one hell of a week.

0:28.3

I am Felix Amon of Axios.

0:30.6

I'm here in Brooklyn with Anna Schumanski of Breaking Views.

0:34.8

Hello.

0:35.6

I am also on the line with Emily Peck of Huffpost.

0:40.8

Hello.

0:41.6

From an undisclosed location somewhere in Westchester.

0:44.6

But most excitingly, I'm also here with Ben Hubbard in Beirut, Lebanon.

0:50.0

Hi, Ben.

0:50.6

Hello.

0:51.2

You are Ben, the New York Times Bureau Chief in Beirut.

0:55.8

Yes.

0:56.8

And you have written a book.

0:58.4

It is called MBS, the Rise to Power of Muhammad bin Salman.

1:02.0

And I can definitely recommend this book.

1:04.3

It is a fantastic book.

1:05.6

This man is the most important and interesting head of state in the world, kind of, definitely in the top five.

1:12.0

But he's come out of nowhere to seize just astonishing amounts of power. We are going to go back

1:18.8

to either 150 years ago or maybe six days ago when oil prices went crazy. We are going to talk

1:26.6

about the coronavirus and its effects on the global economy. We are going to talk about the coronavirus and its effects on the global

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