Are Wallets Obsolete?
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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The New York Times declared that physical wallets are on the outs. But is digital enough? Felix Salmon Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss! Also: Steve Mnuchin’s heroic $1 billion bailout of New York Community Bank, and new rules requiring public companies to report their carbon emissions. In the Plus segment, a leaked Department of Labor email to a mysterious group of “super users” may reveal why January’s inflation numbers spiked.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to sleep money. Hello |
| 0:18.0 | welcome to sleep money your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Simon of Axios joined by my colleague Emily Peck. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello hello. And by Elizabeth Spires in your time. joined by my colleague Emily Peck. Hello, hello? |
| 0:22.6 | And by Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times. |
| 0:25.4 | Hello. |
| 0:25.8 | We are going to talk about all manner of different stuff today, |
| 0:29.4 | but we are going to start by talking about New York Community |
| 0:32.1 | Bancore, which was kind of rescued by the one and only Steve |
| 0:37.0 | Neushin this week. We're going to talk about Steve Neushin, how it's the Zellic of Bank |
| 0:42.0 | Crisis. We are going to talk about wallets and whether we even |
| 0:46.1 | need them anymore. We are going to talk about SEC rules about carbon emissions. we have a whole slate plus about |
| 0:55.2 | owners equivalent rent and inflation and what even is inflation and how much we love |
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| 1:45.0 | So Emily, guess what? What? |
| 1:46.0 | What? |
| 1:47.0 | We didn't have a banking failure or banking crisis this week. |
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