Slate Money

On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Stacey Vanek Smith of Planet Money discuss the business and finance news of the week.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

-Buying citizenship, in St. Kitts and the U.S.

-Why activist investors aren't nominating women to board positions.

-How white collar America secretly loves working too much.

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On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann talk sales taxes.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

-Cathy battles the tampon tax.

-Ted Cruz makes a proposal for a new kind of value-added tax.

-Felix can't stand the way Americans keep the sales tax off the price tag.

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On this episode of Slate Money, Guan Yang joins hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann to talk about battles with the government. 

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

-The Apple versus the FBI battle is about much more than just Apple. 

-Sci-Hub's gone to the dark web.

-Argentina says it's not evil anymore. 

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On this episode of Slate Money, Neil Irwin, author of The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire, joins hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann. This week is all about Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed's new solution for our too-big-to-fail banks.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

-How to break up the biggest banks. 

-How we could turn banks into public utilities.

-How to take away the tax-deductibility of interest. 

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On this episode of Slate Money, Muhamed El-Erian joins hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann talk about the future of central banks.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

-Our economy is at a T-junction- things are about to go very good, or very bad, depending on the decisions our government makes

.-Why central bankers, IMF types, and the like, often want to do things which go against the will of the people. 

-What is the role of central banks?

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On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann talk cold hard cash.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

-The failure of bitcoin, and why we'll never have a cash-free society

-Viacom's aging patriarch Sumner Redstone, and Philippe Daumain’s $54M pay package

-Why Credit Suisse is tanking

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On this episode of Slate Money, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, Miriam Gottfried of the Wall Street Journal, and Shane Ferro of the Huffington Post talk about feelings.

Topics discussed on today’s show include:

-Facebook's new emoji options, and what this means for Twitter

-Univision is buying The Onion 

-Gender discrimination on Wall Street

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On this episode of Slate Money, Felix goes to the World Economic Forum in Davos!

Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate'sMoneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann are joined by special guest Jenny Anderson, a Quartz reporter at the conference. They discuss:

• Their first takes on Davos

• Diversity at the World Economic Forum

• The $68 Davos burger

• And, of course, Donald Trump

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Twitter: @Felix salmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann

Podcast production by Zachary Dinerstein

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On this episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann are joined by special guest William Easterly, Professor of Economics at New York University, and the author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. They dig into:

• The realities of the developing world

• Poor and displaced populations

• The World Bank

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Twitter: @Felix salmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann

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On this episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann are joined by special guest Elly Trickett, editor-in-chief of IBM.com and former director of content for Weight Watchers. They discuss:

•How weight loss programs make money

•The enduring trend of wearable fitness tech

•The economics of gym memberships and yoga studios

Felix’s number: How Americans got so fat.

Under Armour's new UA Record fitness app.

Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @Felix salmon, @mathbabedotorg, @JHWeissmann

Podcast production by Zachary Dinerstein

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