Slate Money
A weekly roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of business and finance, hosted by Felix Salmon.
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The Shaking Things Up Edition
Slate Money asks just how bad are US airports? What just happened in the UK election? And, what is Elizabeth Warren and David Vitter trying trying to do to the Fed?
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The Celebrations Edition
Reuters Breakingviews global editor Rob Cox joins Slate Money to talk about music festival economics, GE's economics, and wedding economics.
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The Trying To Be Clever Edition
Author and "Sketch Guy" columnist Carl Richards joins Slate Money to talk about financial planning, billionaire whimsy, and the flash crash.
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The Warren Buffett Edition
Slate Money on the man, the fortune, and Berkshire Hathaway's future.
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The Lemons Edition
Slate Money on why college is so expensive, the economics of the California drought, and letters from listeners.
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The Revolting Edition
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann take on revolting capitalists in every sense of the words
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The Podcast Podcast
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, plus special guests Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media and Will Mayo of Spoken Layer discuss the business of digital audio. This week’s podcast is sponsore
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The Literary Edition
Slate Money on Alissa Quart's new book of poems, Monetized, then a bookish take on Wall Street bonuses, and tax advice from David Foster Wallace.
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The Automatic for the People Edition
Slate Money on odious debt as an international power play, Charles Schwab's play to create a robo-adviser, and the Apple smart watch.
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The Money for Nothing Edition
Slate Money on whether Wu Tang Clan's album can sell like fine art, a stock plunge for Lumber Liquidators, and reasons we have patent trolls.
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The Shiny New Things Edition
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate, discuss the college students refusing to pay their debts to Corinthian College, the Mountain View residents mad about...
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The Don't Be Evil Edition
Slate Money on the secretly evil world of government debt collectors, not-so-evil employee pay raises at Walmart, and oversized valuations for an uber-evil car sharing service.
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The Exotic Fantasies Edition
On this week's episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate discuss Greece's showdown with its European lenders; competition inside the world of online travel, and the new film...
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The Flipping and Flopping Edition
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate discuss President Obama's flip flop on the 529 college savings plan, the FCC's flip flop on net neutrality, and Shake Shack's
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The Sports Edition
Slate Money on paying college athletes, the real cost of sports stadiums, and the outsize salary of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
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The Davos Edition
Slate Money on what actually happens when you go to Davos, when the European Central Bank tries quantitative easing, and when the U.S. capital gains tax goes up.
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The "Crazy Currencies" Edition
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of Mathbabe.org and Slate's Jordan Weissmann discuss the Bitcoin’s sudden fall, the Swiss Franc’s sudden rise and some possible good news in the job market.
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The "Shrinkage" Edition
Slate Money on shrinking birthrates in Japan, shrinking prices in the Eurozone, and the shrinking cost of television access.
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The "Econ 101" Edition
On this week’s episode of SlateMoney, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate's Jordan Weissmann, and Cathy O’Neil of Mathbabe.org devote the entire episode to a letter from Nathan Connelly, running down a list of the top nine (or maybe ten, depending on w
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The Matt Levine Is Amazing Edition
Matt Levine of Bloomberg View joins the Slate Money crew and special guest Shane Ferro of Business Insider to discuss insider trading, bank earnings, and Argentina.
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The Quadraphonic Edition
Slate Money on the currency crisis in Russia, a reversal of the swaps "push-out" rule, the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, and U.S.-Cuba relations.
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The Let's Kill All the Lawyers Edition
Slate Money on overturned insider-trading convictions, a lawyer's battle with a Chinese restaurant, and the decline in divorce proceedings
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The Arts and Crafts Edition
Host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate discuss art markets rich (Art Basel) and less rich (Etsy), a controversy over Maurice Sendak's estate, and the unfathomable generosity of Slate Money listeners.
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The "Matching Gift" Edition
On episode 29 of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of Mathbabe.org, and Jordan Weissmann of Slate's Moneybox discuss charities as venture capitalists, Uber, and Abenomics.
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The Special Philanthropy Edition
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica and Rob Reich of Stanford University discuss transactional philanthropy at Lincoln Center, the boom in family foundations and ProPublica's investigation of
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