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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
- 786
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Slate Money: Enron 2
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss updates in the collapse of crypto exchange platform FTX and how the situation compares to past business downfalls. They also talk abo…
00:57:42 |
Sat 19 Nov 2022
ICYMI: What's Going to Happen to Twitter?
On today’s episode, Rachelle is joined by Lizzie O’Leary, the host of Slate’s tech podcast What Next: TBD. The two discuss Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, whether or not Musk has broken any laws and…
00:40:41 |
Sat 19 Nov 2022
What Next TBD: The Case Against Climate Reparations
At this year’s annual UN conference on climate change, they are discussing “climate reparations,” wherein the rich countries that grew their wealth burning fossil fuels pay money to poorer and more v…
00:32:10 |
Fri 18 Nov 2022
What Next TBD: Is This The Cryptocalypse?
The (once) second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, collapsed in stunning fashion this week, highlighting why consumers really do want regulation, and why old financial institutions remain wary o…
00:31:20 |
Sun 13 Nov 2022
Slate Money: WTF SBF
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and What Next TBD host Lizzie O’Leary discuss the ongoing disaster at crypto exchange platform FTX. They also talk about the slightly smaller meltdowns at Twitter…
00:54:57 |
Sat 12 Nov 2022
What Next TBD: Senator Chris Murphy on Elon's Acquisition of Twitter
The second largest investor in Twitter, after Elon Musk, is the Saudis, which raises questions about what kinds of “free speech” Musk is really committed to. But it also raises questions around natio…
00:19:05 |
Fri 11 Nov 2022
What Next TBD: Why Are So Many Little Kids Sick Right Now?
It’s been a rough autumn for parents of little kids, as non-COVID respiratory diseases are taking advantage of the first fall since 2019 where schools and daycares are full again, and America’s strai…
00:25:03 |
Sun 06 Nov 2022
Slate Money: Homecoming
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Financial Times columnist and editor Rana Foroohar to discuss her new book, Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global…
00:57:05 |
Sat 05 Nov 2022
What Next TBD: So How’s It Going, Elon?
One week in as head honcho of Twitter and Elon Musk is in a tight spot: how do you balance the desires of advertisers with your ostensible zeal for free speech? How do you make something for which yo…
00:28:51 |
Fri 04 Nov 2022
Slate Money: Memelord Takeover
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Bloomberg Opinion columnist Matt Levine to talk about his Bloomberg Businessweek article The Crypto Story. They also discuss El…
00:52:53 |
Sat 29 Oct 2022
What Next TBD: Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
Twitter has been a lot of things—where you posted your lunch, where you met your people, where you were subjected to a harassment campaign. Now, as Elon Musk prepares to take the reins, where is it h…
00:39:41 |
Fri 28 Oct 2022
How To!: Put Your Town on the Map
If you’ve ever vacationed on the beaches of Delaware, chances are you drove right by Smyrna. It’s a small but charming town that’s been bypassed by the main highways. Which is why Mike, a small busin…
00:33:59 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
One Year - 1942: The Most Hated Man in America
At the beginning of World War II, the greatest threat to the American war effort wasn’t the Nazis or the Japanese—it was runaway inflation. The man in charge of stopping it was the country’s “price c…
00:46:01 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
ICYMI: What’s It Like Being a Twitch Streamer?
A lot has been happening around Twitch, a platform that really seems to live in its own world on the internet. On today’s show, Rachelle is joined by Gita Jackson who explains exactly why Twitch can …
00:38:11 |
Sat 22 Oct 2022
Slate Money: Meet Me by the Fountain
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by design critic Alexandra Lange to talk about her book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall on the evolution of…
00:49:40 |
Sat 22 Oct 2022
What Next TBD: When An Algorithm Raises Your Rent
One company’s software is helping set prices for apartments across the country. But when does an algorithm telling landlords how much to charge—by drawing on property data—cross the line from “handy …
00:33:23 |
Fri 21 Oct 2022
What Next TBD: Are You Ready to Be Composted When You Die?
The idea of composting a human body may seem unsettling—or even gross—and it runs counter to the normal American funeral rites of embalming and internment, which preserve the body. But advocates say …
00:31:55 |
Sun 16 Oct 2022
Slate Money: We Can’t Quit Elon
This week, Emily Peck, Elizabeth Spiers and guest host Ed Lee discuss inflation, the first policymaker to win an economics Nobel Prize, and begrudgingly, updates in the Elon Musk Twitter saga.
In t…
00:45:15 |
Sat 15 Oct 2022
What Next TBD: The Next Amazon Union Fight
Following their victory in Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union is still facing an uphill battle. Both the company and the union are closely watching the organizing vote at a warehouse outside of Al…
00:30:08 |
Fri 14 Oct 2022
What Next TBD: When Your Church Surveils Your Phone
Churches are using accountability apps to keep tabs on their members' behavior. But if your pastor wants to monitor your phone, can you truly consent?
Guest: Dhruv Mehrotra
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
Learn…
00:23:31 |
Sun 09 Oct 2022
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