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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
- 785
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Money Talks: The NIMBY Catch-22
It’s Money Talks…live! This episode was taped at The Hewlett Foundation’s annual New Common Sense Conference, where Felix Salmon chatted with Jerusalem Demsas, who covers housing and infrastructure f…
00:40:10 |
Tue 11 Jun 2024
What Next TBD: Fee’d Up: A Musician’s Take on Ticketmaster
It’s hard to imagine music fans mourning a break-up of Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation, as a Department of Justice lawsuit requests. But even with this monopolistic middleman out of t…
00:23:18 |
Sun 09 Jun 2024
Slate Money: Is the NY Times Just a Gaming Platform?
Even the Grey Lady struggles to profit from the news. This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Semafor founder Ben Smith to discuss media profit models, the impact of G…
00:47:17 |
Sat 08 Jun 2024
What Next TBD: The Secret Semiconductor War
How well is the Biden administration coaxing semiconductor companies to build their chips in the United States? Compared to Taiwan, South Korea, Japan…or even mainland China, things are just okay.
G…
00:23:25 |
Fri 07 Jun 2024
What Next: The Hollywood Strikes Are Over. No One's Back To Work.
After waiting for two strikes to resolve, film and television crews across Hollywood were hungry to return to work. But the work has been slow to come back. As a number of crew union contracts expire…
00:23:19 |
Thu 06 Jun 2024
Slate Money Talks: The United States is Doing Retirement Wrong
On week’s special Money Talks, Teresa Ghilarducci, author of Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy joins Felix Salmon to discuss all things retirement. They dig into …
00:39:44 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
Hear Me Out: Election Betting Should Be Legal
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: placing bets.
Betting on the results of elections is illegal in the United States – though that hasn’t stopped sportsbooks overseas from cashing in. And that doesn…
00:37:12 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
What Next TBD: Would You Buy Poop On the Internet?
“Fecal microbial transplants” treat someone’s unhealthy gut with poop from someone else’s healthy gut, and proponents of FMT claim it can help treat everything from IBS to autism. But if your doctor …
00:23:41 |
Sun 02 Jun 2024
Slate Money: Nobody’s Gonna Stop Nvidia
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Alex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology podcast. They discuss why the Nvidia juggernaut isn’t going to slow down any time soon, t…
00:54:44 |
Sat 01 Jun 2024
What Next TBD: He’s Suing Big Tech Over Uvalde
His law firm won a $73 million dollar settlement against Remington on behalf of nine Sandy Hook families. Now he’s filing a lawsuit against the gunmaker Daniel Defense, the video game company Activis…
00:26:44 |
Fri 31 May 2024
Well, Now: How Doulas Make Childbirth Safer For Everyone
Everyone has a different birth experience.
Obstetricians and midwives are well-known members of the birth team. Along with the pregnant person, they are central to labor and delivery.
Doulas are les…
00:46:31 |
Wed 29 May 2024
ICYMI: Encore: TikTok Shop Is a Dystopian Mall Kiosk
Today, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from September 2022 about TikTok Shop.
In the episode, Rachelle and Candice are joined by sustainable stylist and fashion educator Lakyn Carlton t…
00:41:12 |
Wed 29 May 2024
How To!: Take a Gap Year
Leo is a high-achieving high school senior on the cusp of graduation. Growing up in a rigorous school environment he faced endless pressure to follow the expected track of attending an elite universi…
00:44:28 |
Tue 28 May 2024
Money Talks: Business is Bad for Lesbians
Lesbian businesses are great for the queer women’s community, but making them profitable is a different matter. For this Money Talks, Felix Salmon chats with June Thomas, author of A Place of Our Own…
00:33:16 |
Tue 28 May 2024
Endless Shrimp In This Economy!?
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Kyla Scanlon, author of the new book In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work to talk about the disconnect between rea…
00:44:28 |
Sat 25 May 2024
What Next TBD: Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI
When OpenAI showed a demo for the latest version of ChatGPT —the one that you can chat with, you know, with your voice—one of the voices sounded eerily familiar. And instead of a victory lap, it was …
00:26:51 |
Fri 24 May 2024
ICYMI: The Aftermath of a Layoff
Candice Lim is joined by Yowei Shaw (former co-host of NPR’s Invisibilia) to discuss her new podcast Proxy, which takes listeners through the psychological aftermath of a layoff, starting with Shaw’s…
00:44:20 |
Wed 22 May 2024
What Next TBD: The Dark Side of GoFundMe
In theory, crowdfunding sites offer an opportunity for anyone to give to any cause, including, say, strangers facing huge medical bills. In practice, crowdfunding suffers from many of the same inequi…
00:32:27 |
Sun 19 May 2024
Slate Money: Biden Zaps Chinese EVs
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the motivations and impacts of new tariffs plus the cultural forces behind China’s economic policy. Also: Congress is trying to figur…
00:54:41 |
Sat 18 May 2024
What Next TBD: Too Stonks Too Furious
The 2021 subreddit-coordinated effort to raise the price of Gamestop stock was, in some ways, a proof of concept: the little guy can get into the market and make some noise. Because even though that …
00:24:48 |
Fri 17 May 2024
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