America’s Credit Rating Went Down. So What?
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🗓️ 5 August 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers talk about the recent downgrade of America’s credit rating by one agency. They also cover how Taylor Swift and Beyonce are changing concert tours, and figure out whether or not anyone is judging you during a business lunch.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm Felix Howin of Axios. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:21.3 | I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and elsewhere. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello. We are going to talk about the Fitch ratings downgrade of the United States and what, if anything anything it means. We are going to talk |
| 0:35.1 | about the eventification of the Taylor Swift Tour and the Beyoncé Tour and |
| 0:40.8 | maybe some other tours as well although that's a big question mark. We are |
| 0:45.4 | going to talk about business lunches and is it remotely sensible to care to |
| 0:50.6 | stress about what you eat in business lunch? I mean seriously what even people. |
| 0:54.6 | Can you guess what Felix things? We are going to dive deep into the question of Amex Points. Thank you so much for answering my |
| 1:05.4 | question, which I had last week, about what should I do with my Amex Points? You |
| 1:08.8 | answered it. I will tell you what the answer is in Slate Plus. Do please subscribe to Slate Plus so that you get to listen to such |
| 1:16.8 | insightful and brilliant segments as that. So that's all coming up on sleet money. |
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