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Get the latest from Slate Money and the entire Slate network's takes on the latest in the world of business and business news.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 781
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Slate Money | What Do You Pay the Man Who Has Everything?
This week: Tesla offered Elon Musk an incentive package worth a trillion dollars. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss Tesla's motivation and why Musk, already the richest man in …
00:50:09 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
ICYMI | The Gaylor Fandom Is Going Through It
On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Spitfire News writer Kat Tenbarge, who came to the defense of the Gaylor fandom (people who believe Taylor Swift is secretly queer…
00:51:37 |
Sat 06 Sep 2025
What Next: TBD | Is the A.I. Bubble Bursting?
We’ve been told that artificial intelligence can write, code, generate images—it can do everything…except feasibly turn a profit. But investing in A.I. has nevertheless become a pillar of the U.S. ec…
00:35:05 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
ICYMI | Is $55K Enough To Work At Your Favorite Podcast?
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay talk about the backlash surrounding The Cutting Room Floor, a fashion podcast you may know from its Leandra Medine Cohen episode or its viral Steve Madden interview. Last…
00:43:23 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Slate Money | Money Talks: The Paradoxes of Patagonia
In this Money Talks: Felix Salmon is joined by author and New York Times reporter David Gelles to discuss his new biography of enigmatic Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, Dirtbag Billionaire. David d…
00:39:00 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
What Next: TBD | A24 Meets A.I.
A24 rose from “small budget indie movie studio” to “one of the most respected brands in cinema” on a reputation for treating filmmakers like auteurs. But as the studio is growing and exploring how to…
00:26:23 |
Sun 31 Aug 2025
Slate Money | Sycophantic Suck-Up Machines
This week: Fed governor Lisa Cook is suing the Trump administration over her dismissal. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, along with guest Kashmir Hill of The New York Times, discuss th…
00:57:06 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
What Next: TBD | The Great Celebrity Spotify Playlist Hack
The playlists of dozens of high-level government officials and tech executives were suddenly broadcast to the world on a website called “the Panama Playlists.” But the information wasn’t taken by sop…
00:27:15 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
What Next: TBD | Trump Vs. Cancer Research
President Trump has proposed cutting $2.5 billion from the National Cancer Institute, which in addition to cuts to the National Institutes of Health and research universities almost makes you wonder:…
00:30:18 |
Sun 24 Aug 2025
Slate Money | ATM Scam Summer School
This week: We got more details on the ATM scam that swept New York City thanks to a teen summer job program and an infinite money glitch last month. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck di…
00:57:42 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
ICYMI | ChatGPT Has Ruined the Em Dash
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay get into the war between em dashes and artificial intelligence. Back in 2024, what started as a developer question became an all-out grammar war, with the use of em dashe…
00:39:40 |
Sat 23 Aug 2025
What Next: TBD | The CDC Under Fire
Two weeks ago, a gunman fired over 500 bullets at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention building in Atlanta. Between the anti-public health rhetoric coming from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the …
00:24:36 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Slate Money | Money Talks: Fixing A Broken Monetary System
In this Money Talks: Elizabeth Spiers is joined by professors Matt Sekerke and Steve H. Hanke, coauthors of Making Money Work: How to Rewrite the Rules of Our Financial System. They’ll lay out how t…
00:26:30 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Slate Money | Money Travels: How Much Would You Pay to Not Wait in Line?
In this special episode of Slate Money Travels, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss what extras are really worth paying for when you travel. Airlines, especially want to nickel and …
00:22:40 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
What Next: TBD | Down the Text-Scam Rabbit Hole
The scam du jour arrives via a text message, offering you a job. What happens when you accept?
Guest: Alex Sammon, Slate features writer.
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00:33:19 |
Sun 17 Aug 2025
Slate Money | Digital Cash. IRL Wrenches.
This week: Trump continues to involve himself in the operations of large US companies. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss this slide toward state capitalism, which seemingly goes …
00:50:53 |
Sat 16 Aug 2025
What Next TBD | Trump Dips into NVIDIA’s Chips
Jensen Huang, cofounder of NVIDIA, finds himself president of a $4 trillion company, at the forefront of A.I. technology, and, consequently, something of an international diplomat, as he charms Presi…
00:26:45 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
What Next: TBD | Here Comes the A.I. Music Slop
It’s hard to make money in the music industry. But if you could flood every streamer with hundreds of “original” songs without having to, you know, write or produce it yourself, there’s money there—a…
00:30:29 |
Sun 10 Aug 2025
ICYMI | Viral Debates: Crossing the Aisle or Clickbait?
On today’s episode, hosts Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail to discuss the controversial YouTube channel, Jubilee. A video of political commentator Mehdi Has…
00:51:19 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
What Next: TBD | What Happened After Meta Fired Its Fact-Checkers
In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was moving from employing professional fact-checkers to letting its users fact-check each other. If you’ve heard that it’s going perfectly, then you, t…
00:28:57 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
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