Slate Money: Movies: Trading Places

Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 6:16 p.m.

b'Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.\\xa0\\nIn this special holiday preview episode, Felix and Anna are joined by Yinka Adegoke, the Africa editor for Quartz, to discuss the classic Christmas/commodities-trading comedy Trading Places. They talk about the rampant 1980s-ness of it all, what is actually happening with the frozen concentrated orange juice, and how the film stacks up as a finance movie overall.\\xa0\\nEmail: slatemoney@slate.com\\nPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.\\nTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'