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 the reasons why we have patent trolls.

By Felix Salmon, Cathy O'Neil, and Jordan Weissmann

Listen to Episode No. 43 of Slate Money:

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On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon chats with co-hosts Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org and Jordan Weissmann of Slate about scarcity-based valuations of music, the wonders of short-selling, and the fortune cookie theory of patent law.

Topics discussed on the show today:

Wu-Tang Clan’s latest album and Amanda Palmer’s funding stream
The decline of Lumber Liquidators
The end of patent trolls?

Slate Money will appear every Saturday in the Slate Daily Podcast and its own feed.

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @JHWeissmann, @mathbabedotorg