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🗓️ 23 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about ad tracking and big changes at Apple, what’s going on with tuna bonds, and big businesses buying up real estate. In the Plus segment: Legacy admissions. Mentioned In the show: “Snap’s Stock Plummets as It Blames Apple’s Privacy Changes for Hurting Its Ad Business” by Sarah E. Needleman “Zillow pauses homebuying as tech-powered flipping hits snag” by Patrick Clark “Credit Suisse agrees to pay $475 million in fines over the ‘tuna bond’ affair in Mozambique” by Matthew Goldstein “Amherst College drops admissions edge for children of alumni” by The Associated Press Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the do you accept these cookies episode of Slate Money or
0:18.5	guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise.
0:26.5	Hello. I'm here with Daisy Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg.
0:31.5	Hello.
0:33.0	And we are going to basically talk about whether cookies are delicious or dangerous or both.
0:40.2	And specifically not just about baked cookies but about the ones that apps and computers
0:46.8	put on your phone and follow you around the web.
0:49.4	We're going to talk about ad tracking and all such things.
0:52.4	We are also going to talk about Tuna Bonds because who
0:55.8	doesn't want to know about Tuna Bonds and we are going to talk about Zillow, I-bu buying and the whole business of big companies buying up real estate and
1:07.2	whether it's a good thing or not, spoiler, that it's a totally good thing, I'm all in
1:10.4	favour. No one, no one is going to agree with me.
1:13.7	All of that and the Slate Plus on legacy admissions to universities
1:18.2	is coming up on Slate Money.
1:21.0	Oh and Stacy, you have an update on the TH Chan School of
1:26.0	something at Harvard? Yes, in the episode in which you made it very clear why
1:30.0	you hate surveys and polls, Felix, I described the Harvard-T-H-T-T-T-Tran schools having an affiliation
1:35.5	with Chan Zuckerberg. It does not. Different Chan. Different Chan.
1:39.0	Different Chan.
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