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Trillions

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by Robin Wigglesworth to talk about his new book Trillions. They get into active investing, what’s going on with Tether, and the art company Masterworks.    In the Plus segment: Snacks.    Mentioned In the show:  “Why Masterworks is worth $1 billion” by Felix Salmon “Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?” by Zeke Faux “Former Pepsi C.E.O. Indra Nooyi on the Truth of Corporate Responsibility” by David Marchese “You’re snacking more when working from home, too right ?” by Emily Peck   Email: slatemoney@slate.com  Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Trillions episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance

0:19.1

news of the week.

0:20.1

I'm Felix Simon of Axios.

0:22.3

I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise.

0:25.0

Hello, hi.

0:27.0

I'm here with Stacy Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg.

0:30.0

Hi, hello.

0:32.0

And we have a special guest beaming in from somewhere on the North Sea, Mr Robin Wigglesworth.

0:40.0

Welcome.

0:41.0

Hello everybody. Robin, who are you?

0:45.0

Where are you and what book are you plugging?

0:48.0

Yes.

0:49.0

So my name is Robin Wieglesworth.

0:50.0

I'm a global finance correspondent at the Financial Times and despite the

0:55.5

pretty Harry Potter's last name I'm not plugging a fantasy novel but a book on the history of

1:02.3

passive investing and how it's reshaping markets, investing,

1:07.2

finance and the world, really.

1:09.6

We really loved having you on, when was it, a couple years ago.

1:13.8

We sang Kodd songs together.

1:17.0

You are one of our favorite guests, so we're going to definitely talk to you

1:19.8

about your book.

1:21.6

We are going to talk about Masterworks, which is this company which is selling fractional

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