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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
What Next TBD: Apple Vision Pro: The Ultimate Surveillance Device?
Apple Vision Pro goggles might be a crime against fashion but with the amount of data they can collect—both on the world around the user and on the users themselves—they have the potential to invade …
00:28:54 |
Sun 18 Feb 2024
ICYMI: The Turbulence of Air Force Taylor
Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim catch up on the latest stories churning the Taylor Swift media machine, from her lawyers sending a cease and desist letter to a college student, to her possibly leadi…
00:46:57 |
Sat 17 Feb 2024
Slate Money: America is Beating Everyone
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers explain why factories, energy, stimulus money, and immigration have helped the U.S. economy succeed where its rivals struggle. Also: The faile…
00:50:04 |
Sat 17 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: Warfare Enters the A.I. Era
The war in Ukraine reordered the priorities of the country’s growing tech sector, and has become a place for foreign companies to test out new tools with less regulation or scrutiny.
Guests: Vera Be…
00:28:03 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
ICYMI: The State of Dating Apps
Candice Lim is joined by dating culture researcher Lakshmi Rengarajan and culture writer Kate Lindsay to discuss the past, present and future of dating apps. Online dating has been around since the d…
00:40:20 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
What Next: The American Oligarch Class
How did America end up back in a Gilded Age of incredible wealth disparity, and how did a new generation of oligarchs bend society to their vision?
Guest: Tim Murphy, senior reporter for Mother Jon…
00:26:34 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Decoder Ring: Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
The eerie similarity of coffee shops all over the world was so confounding to Kyle Chayka that it led him to write the new book Filterworld: How Algorithms Are Flattening Culture. In today’s episode,…
00:33:59 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: Breaking Up with Dating Apps
For a while, it seemed like the only place to meet potential partners was through an app—Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, etc. But as the apps are trying to monetize their matchmaking—and some users now with a…
00:25:36 |
Sun 11 Feb 2024
Slate Money: Disney's Wish Upon a (Pop) Star
BREAKING NEWS: Felix Salmon paid money to watch the Taylor Swift concert movie, he reveals it in a tell-all chat with Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers. They discuss CEO Bob Iger’s efforts to keep Disn…
00:43:47 |
Sat 10 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: The NFL’s Concussion Settlement Farce
The NFL's concussion settlement was meant to provide financial support and medical help for players who developed traumatic brain injuries from the sport. So why are so many players denied the help t…
00:29:34 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
ICYMI: Was TikTok Silent or Silenced?
Candice Lim is joined by culture critic and reporter Cyrena Touros to break down the battle between Universal Music Group and TikTok. On February 1, UMG started pulling their artists’ music from TikT…
00:34:57 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
Money Talks by Slate Money: You Should Buy Art
In this Money Talks, Bianca Bosker, author of “Get the Picture,” chats with Felix Salmon about her adventures going undercover in the fine art world. Bianca worked as a museum security guard and gall…
00:48:31 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: Streaming Is Cable Now
The number of TV streaming services is going up—and so is the cost and so are the number of ads. Cordcutters are finding themselves back to cable prices and inconveniences. And these changes don’t ju…
00:30:39 |
Sun 04 Feb 2024
Slate Money: Why Musk Lost $56 Billion
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss why a Delaware judge blocked Tesla’s $55 billion compensation package for Elon Musk and what it means for his Mars dreams. Also: the …
00:44:57 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: The Taylor Swift Deepfake Saga
For all the promise of the technology, one use-case for artificial intelligence reared its ugly head last week: non-consensual pornographic images. As millions of users saw abusive A.I. generated ima…
00:26:41 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
Money Talks: Is Pop Finance Rubbish?
In an off-week bonus episode of Money Talks, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers chat with Yale finance professor James Choi, who has cross-referenced the advice of more than 50 pop financ…
00:40:21 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
What Next TBD: Why Is Everybody Sick?
Are we still paying off our pandemic-induced “immunity debt,” or is there another reason that it feels like we’re all sniffling and coughing and just feeling sick?
Guest: Keren Landman, senior healt…
00:23:17 |
Sun 28 Jan 2024
Slate Money: The Rent is Still Too Damned High
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss record-breaking rents that see most renters forking over more than 30% of their dough. Also: Infant apparel brand Kyte Baby’s materni…
00:52:05 |
Sat 27 Jan 2024
What Next TBD: Are You Ready for the A.I. Election?
In the days leading up to the New Hampshire primary, voters received a robocall purportedly from Joe Biden. Authorities have now determined the call was likely A.I.-generated.
In the era of A.I., ho…
00:26:01 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Money Talks: Live in an Empty Office
For this edition of Money Talks, Grace Rauh, director of the 5BORO Institute, makes the case for office-to-residential conversion. The pandemic pushed people out of offices, and they don’t want to co…
00:41:35 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
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