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- 2018 - 2025
Slate Money: Is Ozempic Eating Into Snack Profits?
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers talk about how Ozempic affects food buying habits, the rise in mortgage and interest rates, and the decrease in stock buybacks.
In the Plus…
00:37:40 |
Sat 07 Oct 2023
What Next TBD: The Man Who Turned You Into Data
Hank Asher was a lot of things: a Florida condo maven, a drug runner, a DEA informant—and a tech visionary who created the mixed blessing of turning everyone’s online activity into an unshakable shad…
00:27:11 |
Sat 07 Oct 2023
What Next TBD: Sam Bankman-Fried—and Crypto—on Trial
As the trial begins, SBF is making the case that what he did is typical in the world of crypto. But when the government paints a much bleaker picture of FTX—one riddled with fraud and deception—what …
00:32:44 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
ICYMI: Nostalgia is the Internet’s Favorite Currency
On today’s show, Rachelle and Candice are joined by Jessica Bennett and Susie Banikarim, the hosts of In Retrospect, a newly-launched podcast that explores pivotal moments from the ‘80s and ‘90s that…
00:44:01 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
What Next TBD: Inside Crypto's House of Cards
The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried marks the end of an era where crypto rose to dizzying, Super-Bowl-commercial heights. Where does the industry go from here?
Guest: Zeke Faux, investigative reporter f…
00:31:06 |
Sun 01 Oct 2023
What Next TBD: Who Will Pay For A COVID Vaccine?
After years of being a rare spot of universal, American-government-funded health care, this fall’s new COVID-19 vaccine is hitting the commercial market for the first time. So far, the rollout has be…
00:31:18 |
Sat 30 Sep 2023
ICYMI: Where Did Bobbi Althoff Come From?
On today’s episode, Rachelle and Candice dive into the latest mystery plaguing the internet—the unprecedented rise of podcaster Bobbi Althoff. Althoff launched The Really Good Podcast in April and si…
00:46:51 |
Sat 30 Sep 2023
What Next TBD: Is Amazon a Monopoly?
Amazon evolved from a place to get cheap used books to the “everything store”—one encompassing warehouses, logistics and shipping.
But with the FTC now run by Lina Khan—who wrote the essay ‘Amazon’…
00:28:53 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
ICYMI: The Summer of Suits
On today’s episode, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton are joined by Daisy Rosario to discuss the hottest show of the summer: Suits. The USA Network procedural follows a magnetic cast of law firm emplo…
00:40:31 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
Slate Money: AI Facial Recognition's Creepy Evolution
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Kashmir Hill to talk about her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us. They dig into the way facial recognition technology is used in unexpecte…
00:55:40 |
Sat 23 Sep 2023
ICYMI: Is “Algospeak” D@ngerous?
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Alexia Fawcett, a PhD candidate in linguistics at UC Santa Barbara and Kendra Calhoun, an assistant professor of linguistic anthropology at the Unive…
00:40:46 |
Sat 23 Sep 2023
What Next TBD: What Instacart’s IPO Means for Tech
As other tech companies that rode the pandemic to success started sinking, Instacart managed to stay above water—they turned a profit and even made it to an IPO. But a stubbornly static stock price h…
00:26:26 |
Sat 23 Sep 2023
What Next TBD: Did AirBnB Need to Go?
The sword of regulation, which has been swinging over New York AirBnBs for over a decade, is falling at last. But will new laws for short-term rentals have the effect housing advocates are hoping for…
00:24:49 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
ICYMI: Inside the MLM to Life Coach Pipeline
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Jane Marie, the host of the award-winning podcast The Dream which recently released it’s highly-anticipated third season all about life coaches. The …
00:41:33 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
Slate Money | Criminals: TheraNOPE
In this episode of the Criminals series, the gang talks with Rebecca Jarvis, host of “The Dropout” about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. Who were the real victims of Holmes’ crimes? How did her lofty …
00:41:58 |
Mon 18 Sep 2023
ICYMI: AI-Generated Books are Tarnishing Authors’ Reputations
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim are joined by Jane Friedman, author of The Business of Being a Writer and the publisher of Hot Sheet, a newsletter about the publishing industry. …
00:49:47 |
Sat 16 Sep 2023
What Next TBD: Can Politicians Keep Kids Safe Online?
The bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act has noble-sounding intentions, but has been called one of the most dangerous bills in years by the digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Gue…
00:30:41 |
Sat 16 Sep 2023
What Next TBD: Google Makes Its Case
A trial a decade in the making has started, as the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google and its unrivaled position as the top search engine begins. Is this the beginning of the gov…
00:32:59 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
Mom & Dad: If You’re Tracking Your Kids, Should You Tell Them?
On this episode: Zak Rosen, Jamilah Lemieux, and Elizabeth Newcamp talk about parenting digital citizens.
Elizabeth sits down with author and speaker Dr. Devorah Heitner about her latest book, Grow…
00:40:13 |
Thu 14 Sep 2023
ICYMI: The Orwellian World of Vintage Fast-Food Training Videos
On today’s show, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton are joined by Slate business and tech writer Nitish Pahwa to describe his recent piece on the deranged world of vintage fast-food training videos. In…
00:41:02 |
Wed 13 Sep 2023
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