Slate Money - Get a Beer and COVID-19
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski discuss the reopening and reclosing of states amid COVID-19 spikes, visas and immigration in the United States, and the messy collapse of the German fintech company Wirecard.
In the Slate Plus segment: Bill Ackman and SPACs.
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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the getter beer and COVID-19 episode of Slate Money or guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:21.8 | This is a reference, of course, to what has been going on in Texas, in Florida. |
| 0:26.0 | People have been going out for beers. |
| 0:27.3 | They've been getting COVID. |
| 0:28.6 | The number of cases is spiking. |
| 0:30.3 | We are going to talk about what that means for the American economy. |
| 0:34.3 | I am Felix, Simon of Axios. |
| 0:36.5 | I came to New York 23 years ago on an H-1B visa. I then |
| 0:42.5 | moved to an I visa. All of this past history has given me an insight into the alphabet soup of |
| 0:50.8 | visas. This is going to be helpful in the second part of this show when we talk about |
| 0:55.4 | visas and immigration. Emily Peck of Huffpo. Hello. Have you any immigrants in your life? |
| 1:02.2 | All of my grandparents came here from elsewhere. Yes. So that's my thing. And Anna Shemanski, |
| 1:09.5 | you, according to this show, because we've already recorded it, have |
| 1:12.7 | been here so long you have no entrepreneurial spirit. |
| 1:15.5 | It's true. |
| 1:16.4 | It's very true. |
| 1:16.9 | Although I do have a lot of immigrants in my life in other ways. |
| 1:19.2 | Anna has a good job working for breaking views. |
| 1:23.2 | If she were entrepreneurial, she would probably start up a German fintech. |
| 1:26.9 | We are going to talk about Wirecard, which is a crazy German fintech, which just went bust, |
| 1:32.8 | and just how long it took to go bust. |
| 1:35.3 | That is coming up, and I really hope that you are a Slate Plus member, |
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