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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 785
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
What Next TBD: u up? Go vote.
Voters in swing states are being subjected to constant political messages—on billboards, commercials and, increasingly, via text messages. But are dozens of “make a plan to vote” texts you’re receivi…
00:22:59 |
Sun 03 Nov 2024
Slate Money: Who Do Boycotts Hurt? Not Jeff Bezos.
This week: Readers aren’t buying Jeff Bezos’ claim that killing the Washington Posts’ presidential endorsement wasn’t from his own business interests. Emily Peck, Elizabeth Spiers, and Anna Szymanski…
00:51:35 |
Sat 02 Nov 2024
What Next TBD: What Elon Wants From Trump
How did Elon Musk go from a poster to someone pumping millions of dollars towards Donald Trump? And what’s he hoping to get for doing so?
Guest: Max Chafkin, Bloomberg Businessweek columnist.
Want…
00:29:55 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
Money Talks: The Gambler Who Bet on Alibaba
In this Money Talks: the man who would bet billions on a coin toss. Host Felix Salmon chats with Lionel Barber, whose new book Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World’s Greatest Disruptor, Masayo…
00:34:48 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
What Next TBD: Facebook for the Dead
He didn’t find his grandfather. But traveling to, photographing, and uploading his grandfather’s memorial stone gave him something else.
Guest: Tony Tran, senior tech editor at Slate and author of …
00:23:05 |
Sun 27 Oct 2024
Slate Money: Elon Musk’s Scheme to (Sort Of) Buy Trump Votes
This week: How do you buy an election? Throw a sweepstakes! Emily Peck, Elizabeth Spiers, and Rueters’ Anna Szymanski (filling in for Felix Salmon) discuss Elon Musk’s scheme to get potential Trump v…
00:54:07 |
Sat 26 Oct 2024
What Next TBD: Can TikTok Sway this Election?
This election cycle, TikTok has evolved into a news-and-politics delivery mechanism. Will it make a difference?
Guest: Sapna Maheshwari, reporting on TikTok and other tech for the New York Times.
W…
00:24:23 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
ICYMI | Victoria’s Secret Is Your Grandma’s Fashion Show
Candice Lim is joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe and Teen Vogue associate editor Aiyana Ishmael to break down the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which came back last week after six years a…
00:52:00 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
Money Talks: How Did Trump Scam America? Lots of Luck.
In a very special election season Money Talks: Trump was never that good at business. How did he fake it till he made it? New York Times reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig explain in their boo…
00:44:11 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
What Next TBD: How Secure Is Our Election?
America’s head of cybersecurity isn’t worried about the election being hacked or the results being tampered with. But this election cycle does have her worried for our democracy.
Guest: Jen Easterly…
00:33:10 |
Sun 20 Oct 2024
Slate Money: China Needs a Stimulus Bazooka
This week: Big trouble in not-so-little China as the second-largest economy tries to get out of its post-COVID funk. Emily Peck, Elizabeth Spiers, and Rueters’ Anna Szymanski (filling in for Felix Sa…
00:59:05 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
What Next TBD | The Elon-Trump Alliance
Elon Musk went from voting for Hillary to supporting Trump so hard that he may have broken election laws. And with Musk influencing both on X and in campaign finance, Democrats are kicking themselves…
00:20:38 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
Money Talks: We Could Run Out of Everything Again
For this Money Talks, it’s time to turn the rat race into a rat walk on the beach. Brigid Schulte, author of Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life, speaks with about …
00:44:56 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
What Next: Gambling on Elections, What Could Go Wrong?
Forget polls—are gambling websites the real way to predict politics?
Guest: Nitish Pahwa, business and tech writer at Slate
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00:27:20 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
What Next TBD | 23andMe...And a Looming Data Disaster
How did 23andMe go from the peak of the double-helix to a death spiral? And if it goes under, is all of the genetic data it collected at risk?
Guest: Kristen V. Brown, staff writer covering health …
00:26:19 |
Sun 13 Oct 2024
Slate Money: What the Hurricanes Cost
This week: Big storms are the new norm, and they’re costing America big time. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the economic toll and surging insurance coasts of climate change. …
00:55:06 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
What Next TBD: Trump’s Crypto Gurus
The crypto project “World Liberty Financial,” which was announced on X by Donald Trump, isn’t a cryptocurrency, nor a crypto-exchange, nor is it actually run by any Trumps. The truth is even stranger…
00:23:03 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Well, Now: Are Supplements Actually Worth It?
Go to the supplement aisle at the grocery store, and the options are endless. Scroll through any Instagram or TikTok feed, and you’re bound to see videos of people claiming their latest supplement is…
00:36:54 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
Decoder Ring: Selling Out (Encore)
Whatever happened to selling out? The defining concern of Generation X has become a relic from another era. How that happened is best illustrated by one of the idea’s last gasps, when in 2001, Oprah …
00:51:19 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
What Next TBD | A.I. Goes Nuclear
Decades ago, Three Mile Island was shut down after a near catastrophic nuclear meltdown. So why is Microsoft paying over a billion dollars to open it back up?
Guest: Matt Reynolds, senior writer at…
00:27:28 |
Sun 06 Oct 2024
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