The Flipping and Flopping Edition
Slate Money on President Obama’s flip-flop on the 529 college savings plan, the FCC’s flip-flop on net neutrality, and Shake Shack’s flipping of burgers but not (yet) flopping on the public stock market.
Listen to Episode No. 39 of Slate Money:
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 Federal Communication Commission’s flip-flop on net neutrality, and Shake Shack’s flipping of burgers but not (yet) flopping on the public stock market.
Our sponsors this week: Stamps.com. For a $110 bonus offer and a no-risk trial, go to stamps.com, click on the microphone, and use the promo code SLATEMONEY. And, HBO and its new documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, the new documentary series from HBO.
Help Slate continue to make great podcasts about the things you love and the things you didn’t even know you love by taking a few moments to complete the Slate Podcast Survey.
Slate Money will appear every Saturday in the Slate Daily Podcast and its own feed
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @JHWeissmann, @mathbabedotorg