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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
Slate Money: Work is Mid 🤷‍♀️
This week: Americans don’t care as much about work. They have better things to do. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the prospect of a four-day workweek and what it could mean fo…
00:48:50 |
Sat 16 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: Is TikTok Cooked This Time?
TikTok’s connection to the Chinese government has been a Washington talking point since the Trump administration, but earlier this month lawmakers in the House introduced a bill requiring the app’s p…
00:26:22 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Decoder Ring: Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
Like a manager or an agent or a publicist, a stylist has become a kind of must-have accessory for well-dressed, A-list celebrities. It’s just expected that they will have hired someone to select the …
00:42:54 |
Wed 13 Mar 2024
Death, Sex & Money: Who’s Driving Your Uber?
This week, we’re revisiting an episode about the transitional lives of Uber drivers. Anna and then-producer Katie Bishop hitched multiple rides in the Bay Area and heard stories about immigration, do…
00:32:58 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
Slate Money: Her Boyfriends Couldn’t Handle Her Success
In a special episode of Money Talks, Emily Peck chats with writer/director Chloe Domont, whose feminist thriller Fair Play explores what happens when an ambitious woman outshines her well-meaning but…
00:30:13 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
What Next: Biden's War on Junk Fees
Extra charges and fees for everything from booking a hotel to buying concert tickets have become an insidious part of daily life. President Biden is hoping that by outlawing so-called “junk fees,” he…
00:27:46 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: Instagram’s Pedophile Problem
As the debate around child safety online rages on, an investigation by The New York Times found a seedy world of pedophiles interacting with child influencer accounts, often run by their parents, on …
00:33:58 |
Sun 10 Mar 2024
Slate Money: Are Wallets Obsolete?
The New York Times declared that physical wallets are on the outs. But is digital enough? Felix Salmon Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss! Also: Steve Mnuchin’s heroic $1 billion bailout of New …
00:44:26 |
Sat 09 Mar 2024
ICYMI: Protecting Child Influencers From Their Parents
Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim are joined by writer and journalist Fortesa Latifi who has been reporting extensively on child influencer legislation for Teen Vogue. In August 2023, the governor of …
00:39:50 |
Sat 09 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: Why TikTok Went Silent
Thousands of songs have disappeared from TikTok in recent months as music giant Universal Music Group, or UMG, has pulled its catalog from the app. UMG claims that TikTok is a music platform, and tha…
00:22:43 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Slate Money: Citibank’s Kid Millionaire
In this Money Talks. Felix Salmon chats with former trader Gary Stevenson, author of The Trading Game: A Confession. In the book and conversation, Gary tells how a card game made him Citibank’s young…
00:39:34 |
Tue 05 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: Google’s Scam Obituary Problem
Why scam obituaries are edging out earnest ones, with the help of artificial intelligence and an adept Google game.
Guest: Mia Sato, reporter for The Verge.
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00:28:47 |
Sun 03 Mar 2024
ICYMI: Rachel Karten on Snark Subreddits and Ryan Sheckler
Candice Lim is joined by Link in Bio writer Rachel Karten, whose Substack breaks down how Stanley Cups went viral, why the Duolingo owl got a BBL and how “seemingly ranch” hit supermarket shelves. Ka…
00:35:26 |
Sat 02 Mar 2024
Slate Money: Musk vs. the AI Overlords
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers ponder the future of computers, cars, and…fast food? They discuss why Elon Musk is suing Sam Altman and OpenAI and the altruistic origins of C…
00:47:00 |
Sat 02 Mar 2024
What Next TBD: The Supreme Court Takes on Content Moderation
Is it censorship for social media platforms to moderate their content, or is censorship when the state tells social media platforms how to moderate their content?Â
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate wr…
00:29:23 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Decoder Ring: The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
Thirty years ago, a new kind of soda arrived in select stores. Instead of crowing about how spectacular it was, it offered up a liquid shrug, a fizzy irony. OK Soda was an inside joke for people who …
00:43:48 |
Wed 28 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: Alabama’s IVF Mess
Fertility doctors and their patients trying to conceive via in vitro fertilization (IVF) were stopped in their tracks this week, as the Alabama Supreme Court declared that embryos have the same right…
00:28:09 |
Sun 25 Feb 2024
Slate Money: Is Capital One’s Discover Deal Doomed?
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers come with 0% interest and no fees! They discuss what the proposed merger between Capital One and Discover would mean for the rest of us and wh…
00:42:23 |
Sat 24 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: The Coasts are Sinking
Studies have found that, in tiny increments, America’s East Coast is sinking into the ground thanks to climate change. Can a new approach to urban planning mitigate the effect?
Guest: Matt Simon, se…
00:20:11 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Slate Money: I Was a Billionaire’s Right Hand
Felix Salmon sits down with Carrie Sun, whose book Private Equity: A Memoir recalls her life as the right-hand woman of a billionaire hedge fund manager. Burnt out on corporate life, Carrie wanted a …
00:28:24 |
Tue 20 Feb 2024
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