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Slate Money

The Yellow Vests and Golden Passports Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2018

⏱️ 46 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 Production by Max Jacobs. Listen to Slate Money via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.0

Hello 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. I'm actually in Axios HQ in Arlington, Virginia.

0:28.6

I am joined in the New York studio by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

0:37.0

Hello.

0:38.0

I am joined by Anna Schmanski.

0:41.0

Hello.

0:42.0

And most excitingly, we are by Anna Schmanski. Hello?

0:42.8

And most excitingly, we are all joined by my old portfolio colleague,

0:50.8

Mr Duff McDonald's. Duff McDonald.

0:53.0

Hello Duff.

0:56.0

Duff just wrote an amazing piece about Cheryl Sandberg

1:00.0

for the magazine known as Vanity Fair.

1:04.4

He has written amazing books about McKinsey and about Harvard Business School.

1:10.4

And we are going to talk a little bit about McKinsey in Sleep Plus.

1:15.7

We are going to talk a lot about Harvard Business School.

1:18.3

We are going to talk about the Yellow Vest protests in France. We are going to talk about the yield curve and whether it has

1:27.9

inverted and whether that even matters if it has. We are going to talk about so much

1:32.2

stuff it's going to be an awesome show, mainly because

1:36.9

Duff is here, because Duff is actually an expert on the kind of things that are really driving the news right now, especially in and around

1:46.8

the monster world-spanning organization known as Facebook, which is, I don't know if you saw this, in a lot of trouble

1:55.2

right now, especially from the UK. We will talk a little bit about that. Coming up on Slate Money.

2:03.6

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

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