Slate Money: Nerd EGOT
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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski discuss Janet Yellen’s historic appointment to Treasury Secretary, Penguin Random House buying Simon & Schuster for more than $2 billion and why you might want to think twice before giving to United Way Worldwide on Giving Tuesday.  In the Slate Plus segment: A Brexit check in.  United Way Accused Of Retaliation Against Women Employees by Emily Peck for HuffPost Is Dunkin’s $500 Tandem Bike Real? An Investigation. by Jillian Capewell for HuffPost Email: [email protected] Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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