Slate Money - The Yellow Vests and Golden Passports Edition
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Facebook in Europe, Sandberg and Harvard Business School, the ‘Yellow Vest’ protests in France, and a look at the yield curve with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Emily Peck, and Duff McDonald.
In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, Emily, and Duff discuss more McKinsey gossip.
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck, @duffmcdonald
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the yellow and welcome to the yellow vests and golden passports edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm actually in Axios H.Q in Arlington, Virginia. |
| 0:29.2 | I am joined in the New York studio by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. |
| 0:37.5 | Hello. I am joined by Anna Huffington Post. Hello. |
| 0:38.6 | I am joined by Anna Shamansky. |
| 0:41.6 | Hello. |
| 0:42.5 | And most excitingly, we are all joined by my old portfolio colleague, Mr. Duff McDonald. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello. |
| 0:54.5 | Hello, Duff. Duff McDonald. Hello. Hello, Duff. |
| 0:56.6 | Duff just wrote an amazing piece about Cheryl Sandberg for the magazine known as Fannity Fair. |
| 1:04.4 | He has written amazing books about McKinsey and about Harvard Business School. |
| 1:10.3 | And we are going to talk a little bit about McKinsey and about Harvard Business School. And we are going to talk a little bit about |
| 1:13.4 | McKinsey in Sleep Plus. We are going to talk a lot about Harvard Business School. We are going to |
| 1:18.8 | talk about the yellow vest protests in France. We are going to talk about the yield curve and whether it has inverted and whether that even matters if it has. We are going to talk about the yield curve and whether it has inverted and whether that even matters |
| 1:30.0 | if it has. We are going to talk about so much stuff. It's going to be an awesome show, |
| 1:36.0 | mainly because Duff is here, because Duff is actually an expert on the kind of things that |
| 1:42.6 | are really driving the news right now, especially in and around |
| 1:46.0 | the monster world-spanning organization known as Facebook, which is, I don't know if you saw |
| 1:54.2 | this, in a lot of trouble right now, especially from the UK. We will talk a little bit about that. |
| 1:59.7 | Coming up on Slate Money. |
| 2:03.3 | So the news hook this week is that Damien Collins, who is a British MP, wound up sending the parliamentary sergeant-at-arms dressed up in tights as far as I can make out to the hotel room of this |
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