Having Children is Hard

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the disappointing jobs report and how it relates to falling birth rates, the Bill and Melinda Gates divorce news and Trump’s Facebook ban. In the Plus segment: The Peloton treadmill recall. Mentioned in the show: “The Great Birth Rate Freak-Out” by Jill Filipovic MIT Media Lab director resigns over financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein” by Felix Salmon for Axios “How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein” by Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:19.3	Hello, welcome to the Having Children is Hard episode of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:21.8	I'm Felix Simon of Axios.
0:23.5	I'm here with Stacy Marie Ishmael.
0:26.0	Hello.
0:26.6	I'm here with Emily Peck.
0:28.0	Hi.
0:28.6	And we are going to be talking about the Jobs Report this week, which was a massive disappointment and we're going to
0:35.6	zoom back and talk a lot about what that means in terms of having children and
0:41.4	things like that.
0:43.0	We're going to talk about the Facebook Oversight Board
0:47.0	and their decision to approve Facebook's decision to kick Donald Trump off the platform and of course we are
0:57.2	going to talk about the richest couple to ever get divorced in the history of
1:02.2	the planet,
1:03.2	Bill and Melinda Gates.
1:04.5	Are you sure about that?
1:05.6	Doesn't Jeff Bezos have more money than Bill Gates?
1:07.4	Yeah, he does.
1:08.8	He's richer.
1:09.3	Oh, maybe the second richest couple
1:11.3	to ever get divorced in world. I think, yeah.
1:15.6	We also have a slate plus segment on Peloton and their new recall of the Tread Plus treadmillreadmill which they said they wouldn't recall and
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