The "You Say Beeta, I Say Beta" Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, discuss:ProPublica’s report that minority neighborhoods pay higher car insurance premiums than whiteRentberry, a controversial new company that allows renters to bid on apartmentsThe popularity of smart beta investing Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @JHWeissmann, @Three_Guineas Production by Zachary Dinerstein. Slate Money is brought to you by Boll and Branch. Get 50 dollars off your first set of sheets plus free shipping by going to BollandBranch.com and using promo code money. And by Rocket Mortgage from Quicken Loans.When it comes to the big decision of choosing a mortgage lender, work with one that has your best interests in mind. Use Rocket Mortgage for a transparent, trustworthy home loan process that’s completely online at QuickenLoans.com/SLATEMONEY. And by Orkin. Every home is unique, that’s why Orkin creates customized treatment plans based in science from the nation’s leading entomologists. Get 50 dollars off your first pest control service by signing up at orkin.com/MONEY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.2	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:35.2	Hello!
0:37.2	And welcome to the Yusei Beta I Say Beta edition of Slate Money.
0:43.0	Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week,
0:47.0	we are recording on Jordan Weisman's birthday.
0:50.0	Happy birthday, Jordan.
0:52.0	Hello, thank you Felix.
0:54.0	We have really two weeks worth of news to cover here
0:58.0	because frankly we covered no news whatsoever
1:01.0	last week with Bianca,ostka and a sloppy wine episode. We're going back to
1:09.9	basics here but over the past couple of weeks we had the official triggering of
1:16.1	Article 50 Britain is going to leave the European Union in March of 2019 and I'm very sad about that and we're not going to
1:26.4	talk about that we are going to talk about racial discrimination in car insurance
1:31.6	and we're going to talk about whether you can use like market
1:36.4	mechanisms to set rents on the internet and websites and we're going to talk
1:41.2	about smart beta which is one of these weird things which
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