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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
- 782
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
What Next: TBD | Hot Measles Summer
It’s a record-breaking year for America: we’ve now had the most reported cases of measles since the disease was declared “eradicated” in 2000.
How did public health backslide so hard that it undid …
00:26:30 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
ICYMI | Encore: Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?
Candice Lim is joined by Dazed senior writer Laura Pitcher to discuss her piece, “Meet the people using ChatGPT as their therapist.” Since ChatGPT’s public release in late 2022, there has been a grow…
00:40:21 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Slate Money | Money Talks: The Working Homeless in America
In this Money Talks: Elizabeth Spiers is joined by journalist Brian Goldstone to discuss his book There is No Place for Us on the rising homelessness crisis and how a huge swath of the US population …
00:44:39 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Slate Money | Markets Will Be Markets
This week: The US stock market has reached a new all time high. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers are joined once again by investments expert Barry Ritholtz who talked us through the mar…
00:53:11 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
ICYMI | Not Even Lawsuits Can Stop AI
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Slate senior tech editor Tony Ho Tran to parse through what Meta’s victory in a recent AI lawsuit means for its users. Tools like ChatGPT are becoming more …
00:43:46 |
Sat 05 Jul 2025
What Next: TBD | The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
Under a normal administration, a merger between two large advertising firms might attract the government’s interest for anti-monopoly reasons. Under this one, the Federal Trade Commission is creating…
00:24:31 |
Sun 29 Jun 2025
Slate Money | Megayacht Foam Parties Are In
This week: Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary in the race for New York City mayor. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the alarmist reactions from business leaders to the Ma…
00:47:42 |
Sat 28 Jun 2025
ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Will Win the War
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay are joined by Yahoo senior entertainment reporter Kelsey Weekman, who is fresh off the plane from this year’s VidCon. Unlike past years, when TikTokkers took over the Ana…
00:45:18 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Slate Money | Money Talks: Money is One Hell of A Drug
In this Money Talks: Felix Salmon is joined by author James Frey to discuss his new novel, Next to Heaven, set among America’s ultra-ultra-rich, the real life billionaires he knows who inspired it, a…
00:28:34 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
What Next: TBD | Airlines Are Selling Your Data to the Government
ARC, the data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, has been selling domestic flight data in the US to Customs and Border Protection. But in the contract, they told CBP not to reveal where th…
00:26:13 |
Sun 22 Jun 2025
ICYMI | Is Partiful Cancelled?
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay start off with two sounds of the summer from a divisive Love Island USA contestant and a popstar “standing on business.” Then, they explain the controversy brewing behind…
00:37:24 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Slate Money: We Submit To The AI Overlords
This week: We become cheerleaders for crypto regulation, AI, and…Cheerleaders. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the GENIUS act, the major crypto regulation bill which recently pa…
00:54:51 |
Sat 21 Jun 2025
Slate Money | Peak AI Frenzy
This week: Warner Brothers and Discovery breakup again. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers examine the undoing of the three-year-old merger. Then, the hosts discuss runaway AI valuations a…
00:49:36 |
Sat 14 Jun 2025
ICYMI: When CEOs Post About Workers Who “Coast”
Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim dive into the online workplace drama surrounding a millennial founder’s hot take about 9-to-5 workers. Lindsey Carter is the CEO of SET Active, an influencer-targeted ath…
00:31:38 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Slate Money | Money Talks: Philosophy of The Budget
In this Money Talks: Felix Salmon is joined by Barry Lam, host of Slate’ philosophy podcast Hi-Phi Nation to help him explain how the GOP sees the budget deficit in the “Big Beautiful Bill” using phi…
00:45:29 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
What Next | Corporate America Retreats From Pride
After years of bigger floats and bigger rainbow-ified logos, corporate sponsorship for Pride Month celebrations is dropping off this year. But, given that Pride is the commemoration of an uprising ag…
00:29:44 |
Mon 09 Jun 2025
What Next: TBD | The Future of the Internet Hinges on Gail Slater
Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater inherited the government’s antitrust case against Google and is eager to follow it through—but likely not for the same reasons as her predecessors.
Guest: Na…
00:28:52 |
Sun 08 Jun 2025
Slate Money | Let’s TACO ‘Bout It
This week: Prices are going up, but inflation data has become unreliable under Trump. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss how staffing cuts at The Bureau of Labor Statistics have ca…
00:48:18 |
Sat 07 Jun 2025
What Next: TBD | Is Palantir Building a Data Big Brother?
One of the goals of DOGE was to get rid of the “silos” that keep government agencies from sharing freely amongst themselves efficiently and instead organize data using tools offered by companies like…
00:29:45 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
What Next: TBD | So Long, Elon
His time in Washington was brief, but we’ll be picking up the pieces for a long time. What Elon’s exit signals for the future of DOGE, and Musk’s political career.
Guest: Kate Conger, reporter fo…
00:29:20 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
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