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 Sweet Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the |
| 0:16.2 | week. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and elsewhere. |
| 0:26.2 | We are going to talk about the fitch ratings downgrade of the United States and what if |
| 0:32.4 | anything it means. |
| 0:33.8 | We are going to talk about the eventification of the Taylor Swift tour and the Beyonce |
| 0:40.5 | tour and maybe some other tours as well, although that's a big question mark. |
| 0:45.0 | We are going to talk about business lunches and is it remotely sensible to care, to |
| 0:50.7 | stress about what you eat in business lunch, I mean, seriously, what even people. |
| 0:54.8 | Can you guess what Felix thinks? |
| 0:58.4 | We are going to dive deep into the question of MX points. |
| 1:03.9 | Thank you so much for answering my question, which I had last week about what you'll |
| 1:07.7 | do with my MX points. |
| 1:08.7 | You answered it. |
| 1:09.7 | I will tell you what the answer is in Slate Plus. |
| 1:12.4 | Do please subscribe to Slate Plus. |
| 1:15.3 | So do you get to listen to such insightful and brilliant segments as that. |
| 1:20.0 | So that's all coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:25.8 | Elizabeth Spires. |
| 1:27.8 | Felix. |
| 1:29.8 | What do you know about fitch ratings and have you ever cared about them? |
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