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Jordan Weissmann is Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent. In this interview we talk to him about his piece in Slate titled "The Department of Education Has Looked Into Whether to Let Schools Use Federal Money to Buy Guns." It's an excellent piece and a great example of how we truly are living under a government that is far from normal. Please check out his new podcast "Working" Read this fantastic piece here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/department-of-education-considers-letting-schools-buy-guns-for-teachers-with-federal-grant-funds.html Follow Jordan of Twitter: https://twitter.com/JHWeissmann Subscribe to his excellent new podcast: On iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/working/id930665651?mt=2 On Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes930665651/working On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3PAmCMXWsNRtZTOt2nRkq3?si=YujF9VIrRsG-ASzED4W2hg On Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/I7o2kuomzonpoire7uourjc6fgy?t=Working On Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/slates-working
Jacob Weisberg is joined by Slate's Jordan Weissmann to talk about Trump's showdown with Trudeau on tariffs and the future of NAFTA. Plus, two soldiers receive their centuries-old wish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jacob Weisberg is joined by Slate's Jordan Weissmann to talk about Trump's showdown with Trudeau on tariffs and the future of NAFTA. Plus, two soldiers receive their centuries-old wish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jamelle Bouie talks to Slate's Jordan Weissmann about the GOP tax plan rollout and the nomination of new Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jamelle Bouie talks to Slate's Jordan Weissmann about the GOP tax plan rollout and the nomination of new Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jamelle Bouie talks to Cornell Belcher, president of Brilliant Corners Research & Strategies, about the Obama backlash and Trump leaning into white racial resentment. Stick around after that interview to hear Trumpcast produer Jayson De Leon chat with Slate's Jordan Weissmann about the two health care executive orders Trump signed on Thursday. To sign up for Slate Plus go to Slate.com/TrumpcastPlus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jamelle Bouie talks to Slate's Jordan Weissmann about the latest version of the healthcare bill and how, in many ways, it's worse than the bill proposed last month by the House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jamelle Bouie talks to Slate's Jordan Weissmann about the latest version of the healthcare bill and how, in many ways, it's worse than the bill proposed last month by the House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Slate's parenting podcast, Allison Benedikt and Jessica Winter the state of college tuition with Slate's Jordan Weissmann and the insane world of the Radar family parenting vlog with Slate's Amanda Hess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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 who's counting) essential economic concepts every high school graduate should understand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This year’s midterm elections produced big gains for Republicans – and pot smokers. On this week’s episode of Slate Money, host Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate's Jordan Weissmann, and Cathy O'Neil of Mathbabe.org discuss the rise of legal weed, private funding for public schools, and Taylor Swift's breakup with Spotify. Here are some of the links and references mentioned during this week's show: Felix’s article on Taylor Swift yanking her entire catalog from Spotify More Slate takes: Chris Molanphy on “Why Taylor Swift Is the Super Bowl of Pop” and the Culture Gabfesters split bitterly Tay-tay Cathy pointed out the crowdsourcing project Price of Weed: A Global Price Index for Marijuana Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on education and inequality USC’s Lawrence O. Picus’ New York Times op-ed, “School Fundraising Is Unfair But Unavoidable.” Felix mentioned the addictive site Import IO: Instantly Turn Web Pages Into Data Cathy’s number for this week was inspired by this study, which was the subject of an Economist article. Slate Money will appear every Saturday in the Slate Daily Podcast and its own feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this week’s episode of Slate Money, Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of Columbia University and Slate's Jordan Weissmann discuss the economic illogic of Scotland’s independence vote, how a federal banking regulation could impact infrastructure investment, and a look at how higher education pays (or doesn’t) with help from Felix Salmon’s interactive game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Slate Money, featuring Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O'Neil of Mathbabe.org and Slate's Jordan Weissmann. This week: Amazon is making a smartphone, but will people pay for the privilege of easier shopping? An argument over how climate change and impending civil war in Iraq will (or won't) affect the oil market. And the implications of the foreign policy decision the Supreme Court of the United States just made on what Argentina still owes hedge funds, more than a decade after default. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices