Slate Money - Are SPACs Scams?
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about AMC’s meme stock moment and the pros and cons of working from home. Then, Charles Duhigg of the New Yorker and Slate’s How To! podcast, joins to talk about his recent article on Chamath Palihapitiya.
In the Plus segment: The latest Jobs Report.
Mentioned in the show:
“Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home,” by Anders Melin and Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou for Bloomberg
“Commuting is Psychological Torture,” by Luke O'Neil
“The Pied Piper of SPACs,” by Charles Duhigg for the New Yorker
“America’s Cruel Unemployment Experiment,” by Emily Stewart for Vox
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the R-spex scams episode of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance news of a week in which one of the biggest |
| 0:22.5 | spacks of all time was announced. |
| 0:26.1 | We'll see whether that one actually happens or not, whether Bill Ackman manages to buy |
| 0:30.1 | Universal Music Group for $40 billion. |
| 0:33.5 | I am Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm here with Stacey-Marie Ishmael. Hello. I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm here with Emily Peck. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello. |
| 0:42.2 | And we are going to talk about SPACs and whether or not they're scams. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm not sure they're scams. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm pretty sure that maybe one or two of them are scams, but possibly not all of them. |
| 0:51.8 | We are going to talk about AMC, which is the hot meme stock of the them. We are going to talk about AMC, which is the hot |
| 0:55.7 | meme stock of the minute. We are going to talk about commuting and the return to work |
| 1:01.5 | and whether there's any chance of being able to fix the system that was broken before and |
| 1:06.6 | it was broken for the pandemic and will almost certainly realistically remain broken after. |
| 1:11.2 | But we'll be broken in new ways. |
| 1:12.7 | And we'll get to talk about all of the new and interesting ways in which it's broken. |
| 1:15.7 | We have a Slate Plus about the jobs report that came out this week and what it says about |
| 1:20.7 | the difficulty of hiring people right now. |
| 1:23.4 | And about halfway through, we even get to talk to Charles Dohiggas, an amazing piece in the New Yorker this week. |
| 1:29.1 | And it's also the host of a Slate podcast, or was? |
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