The Off the Books Edition
The Financial Times’ Cardiff Garcia joins Slate Money to talk about banks manipulating currency, Cuba’s real economy, and the fight over the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Listen to Episode No. 54 of Slate Money:
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, data scientist Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org and Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann welcome special guest Cardiff Garcia of the blog FT Alphaville to discuss:
- The banks finally pleading criminal guilt for manipulating the currency markets
- A tour of the Cuban economy—courtesy of Cardiff Garcia, who just spent several weeks reporting there
- A Slate Money fight over the fight over the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Slate Money is sponsored by Dropbox, trusted by people in more than 4 million businesses worldwide to keep their files safe, synced, and easy to share with anyone. Try Dropbox for Business free for 14 days at dropbox.com/business
And by Quickbooks. If you work for yourself, try QuickBooks Self-Employed. It helps separate your business and personal expenses, estimate your federal quarterly taxes and more. See what QuickBooks Self-Employed can do for you with a free 30-day trial at tryselfemployed.com/money.
And by Ziprecruiter. Find the perfect candidate easily by posting to more than 100 job boards at once. Try ZipRecruiter for free by going to ziprecruiter.com/slatemoney.
Check out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply.
Slate Money will appear every Saturday in the Slate Daily Podcast and its own feed.
Email: mailto:slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @mathbabedotorg, @jhweissmann, @CardiffGarcia