Biden Zaps Chinese EVs
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the motivations and impacts of new tariffs plus the cultural forces behind China’s economic policy. Also: Congress is trying to figure out what to do with AI, and Melinda French Gates is getting her groove back. In the Plus segment: Rates for new mortgages suck right now, but what if you could buy out someone existing one?
Also: Do you have a donor-advised fund? Do you pay fees on it? Felix invites you to weigh in on his Axios poll for DAF holdersl
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| 0:17.0 | Hello! Welcome to Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Hammond of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello? |
| 0:21.0 | With Elizabeth Spires of New York Times. |
| 0:23.0 | This is a fun one. |
| 0:25.0 | We are going to talk about Chinese terrorists. |
| 0:27.5 | Do not turn the channel or whatever he does on the podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | We are having a genuinely fun and interesting conversation |
| 0:35.1 | about the terrorists that Joe Biden has announced on China and whether they're |
| 0:39.8 | important and why they're important and what this means about like the Chinese Communist |
| 0:43.6 | Party's conception of communism. We are also talking about the plan that the |
| 0:49.2 | Senate has to getting a grip on AI. We are talking about Melinda French Gates and why she's leaving |
| 0:55.1 | the Gates Foundation. We have a Slate Plus segment on throwing spaghetti to the wall and what that has to do with |
| 1:00.9 | the assumeable mortgages. It's a good one. It's all coming up on slate money. |
| 1:07.0 | You know, finding your best summer shouldn't be so hard. |
| 1:16.0 | Scan your next Coca-Cola Zero Sugar and play for a chance to grab your pass to summer's biggest events, |
| 1:21.3 | including music festivals, the Away for Euro |
| 1:23.4 | 2024 and the Olympic Games Paris 2024. |
| 1:26.5 | GB 18-plus only, formation ends 19th of May for full season sees |
| 1:29.4 | visit coke.co. UK slash app slash summer 2024. |
| 1:32.3 | While you're listening to this podcast I'm causing mischief |
| 1:36.7 | Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of pettyi Philu from the fridge because Peti Philu fuels the mischief. |
| 1:47.0 | Boom! |
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