The Yanis Varoufakis is not on Slate Money Edition

Slate Money

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Business, Investing

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2016

⏱️ 43 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 are just fine without Yanis Varoufakis.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

-It's Groundhog Day in Greece.

-Why Puerto Rico can't overcome its debt.

-The prospects of Great Britain leaving the EU are terrifying.

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0:00.0	Slate Money is brought to you by bolinbranch.com, offering luxury betting at affordable prices.
0:08.2	Order now and they'll give you 20% off plus free shipping.
0:12.0	Get sheets, towels, blankets, duvet covers, and more at bowl and branch.com.
0:17.3	That's B-O-L-L-L-A-N-D b r-a-n-c-h dot com and use the promo code money and by headspace if you've ever been
0:30.9	curious about meditation then go to headspace dot com slash money and try the take 10 program. It's guided meditation for 10 days, 10 minutes a day,
0:41.9	absolutely free. Give it a try at headspace.com slash money. And by Betterment, the largest automated
0:50.5	investing service, managing billions of dollars for people just like you.
0:55.0	Get up to six months of investing free when you go to betterment.com slash slate money.
1:02.1	Betterment, investing made better.
1:09.8	Hello, and welcome to the Janus Faru Fakis is Not On Slate Money edition of Slate Money.
1:19.8	I'm Felix Hammond of Fusion.
1:22.5	I am joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the blogger and data scientist at mathbabe.org.
1:30.0	Hello.
1:30.7	I am joined by Jordan Weissman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate.
1:34.5	You know, I was worried that my return to the show after two weeks was going to be overshadowed by our guest.
1:39.8	However, that's not a problem now.
1:41.8	We are not joined by Janus Ferrifakis, the former Greek finance minister and author of a new book who's, I mean, frankly, I don't even know if we need to plug the book anymore.
1:54.0	Because he's not joining us.
1:55.9	He's in a studio in Chicago where we have an ISDN connection to the studio, but his arrival at the studio
2:03.1	did not go well, we are told.
2:04.9	We are apparently the victims of Janus's commute and his tempestuous Greek temper.
2:10.3	That is what I think we are, is happening today.
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