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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
- 784
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Slate Money | Money Talks: Selling The American Dream
In this Money Talks: Jane Marie has spent years reporting on the tangled web of multi-level marketing companies, or MLMs, with her podcast The Dream and dives even deeper in her new book, Selling the…
00:40:18 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Death, Sex & Money | Paid to Care: The Magic, and Mess, of Care Work
Whether it's a nanny taking us to school or a home health aide helping us age in place, most of us will rely on paid caregivers at some point in our lives. For the next two episodes, we'll talk to pr…
00:47:17 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
What Next TBD | Bitcoin Takes the White House
Cryptocurrency spent generously on this last election cycle, and now they’ve got their top pick in the White House, and wins across Congress. Where is the industry looking to go with these favorable,…
00:23:52 |
Sun 05 Jan 2025
Slate Money | The Business of Lively vs Baldoni
This week: The Lively/Baldoni PR war has become a legal battle. And it’s not just reputations that are at stake. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers explain how Blake Lively’s lawsuit agai…
00:50:24 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
What Next TBD | Musk vs. MAGA
On Christmas Eve a fracas erupted on X, when Elon Musk posted in favor of H1-B visas for specialized and high-skill workers and was met with anger from the MAGA base who view the visas as a way for i…
00:26:02 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
Hang Up | Who Gets Christmas: The NFL or NBA?
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs close out 2024 Hang Up and Listen-style. They dig into the War for Christmas being waged between the NFL and NBA. Then they look at Alex Ovechkin…
01:00:20 |
Tue 31 Dec 2024
What Next TBD | The Cost of Suicide Prevention Software
Between a third and half of American schoolchildren have a form of “mental health monitoring” software on their school devices, which scans for and flags certain keywords.
While intuitively appeali…
00:27:58 |
Sun 29 Dec 2024
Slate Money | The Truth Behind Donald Trump’s Tariff Talk
This week: Paul Krugman may have ended his iconic New York Times column but he’s still going to tell us what’s going on. Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined by Paul Krugman to get wonky on global …
00:49:41 |
Sat 28 Dec 2024
Slate Money | Money Talks: Can Math Really Crack the Stock Market? (Encore)
The “Fama–French model” is a Nobel laureate-designed tool for predicting the stock market. It guides hundreds of billions in investments. The problem? Its numbers keep shifting. For this Money Talks,…
00:48:45 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
Slate Money | From Behind the Money: Why Northvolt Failed to Become Europe’s Battery Champion
This week, we’re bringing you an episode from the FT’s Behind the Money podcast: Battery maker Northvolt was supposed to be Europe's best hope for staying competitive during the green transition. But…
00:29:20 |
Mon 23 Dec 2024
What Next TBD | Influencer vs. Influencer
One influencer working for Amazon sued another influencer who works for Amazon for creating content that looks too similar to theirs. But with how the algorithms work and reward, was this an inevitab…
00:30:53 |
Sun 22 Dec 2024
Slate Money | Who Elected Elon?
This week: Elon Musk posted enough misinformation on social media to get a bill blocked and necessitate a government shutdown. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski discuss the multi-billionai…
00:55:22 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
What Next TBD | Drones!??!!!?!!!
Reports of flocks of drones, flying overhead nightly, are coming in from New Jersey down to Maryland. Are they UFOs? Nefarious foreign powers? Something even more pernicious? Something even more bana…
00:22:42 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
What Next | Can More Grocery Stores Fix Food Deserts?
How do you keep a grocery store open in a small or low-income community? The answer might involve regulating big box stores like Walmart and Kroger.
Guest: Molly Parker, investigative reporter for C…
00:26:21 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
What Next | How Trump Got ABC to Pay Up
What ABC’s huge defamation settlement with Donald Trump says about the state of the media, heading into Trump’s second term.
Guest: David Folkenflik, media correspondent for NPR.
Want more What Ne…
00:30:28 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
What Next TBD | The Surveillance State Trump Is Inheriting
Our lives, and our communication in particular, are increasingly conducted over the internet. This means we are increasingly able to be hacked and monitored, by governments, by the police, and more a…
00:25:27 |
Sun 15 Dec 2024
Slate Money: Why Netflix is Reducing Parental Leave
This week: Crypto companies are being debanked but they’re not the only ones. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers break down the conspiracy theory that debanking is a government attack on …
00:47:21 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
What Next TBD | Elon Musk and Trump’s Shadow Transition Team
Elon Musk has been down in Florida with Donald Trump, inviting his fellow rich Silicon Valley friends to stop by and weigh in on the next administration. How could policy and personnel be shaped by t…
00:27:09 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
Well, Now: Is Longer Life Really Possible?
For eons, humans have been trying to find ways to live longer.
It’s a quest that’s inspired legends and myths across cultures and continues to fuel controversy in the health and wellness industry to…
00:34:05 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Slate Money Talks: The Synapse Scandal
In this Money Talks: The collapse of Synapse and resulting fallout highlights how regulators are failing fintech users. Felix Salmon is joined by CNBC’s Hugh Son who has been closely following the si…
00:34:25 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
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