Elon’s Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the biggest business, tech and finance stories of the week. This week, Fox News settles with Dominion, Elon’s rocketship blows up, and Apple has a savings account now.
In the plus: Quantifying the value of domestic labor.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the rapid unscheduled disassembly episode of Slate Money, |
| 0:18.0 | your guide to the business and finance news of what has been a week of many blow-ups. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Felixseus, I'm here with Emily Peck, |
| 0:26.8 | Evaxios. |
| 0:28.2 | Hi. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times and other places? |
| 0:33.0 | Hello. |
| 0:34.0 | Fox News exploded and wound up having to bleed 787.5 million dollars all over Dominion |
| 0:41.3 | voting systems. |
| 0:42.3 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 0:43.6 | SpaceX had a Starship which exploded, which is either bad or good, depending on how you look |
| 0:49.9 | at it. We're going to talk about that and basically the bigger picture of is there a big |
| 0:55.4 | public utility to having private companies that can take risks. We are going to talk |
| 1:00.1 | about the Apple Savings account and also just bank accounts more generally and why they are, why they are. |
| 1:06.0 | We have a Slate Plus segment where Emily will explain why it's so important to have data about the Care Economy, |
| 1:12.1 | much of which we just don't have right now. |
| 1:14.4 | It's all coming up. |
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