Slate Money - How Salt Built America
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers chat with Ed Conway, economics and data editor of Sky News, whose new book “Material World” tells how a handful of everyday resources built civilization — and remain incredibly important today. Also: the astounding secrets of car paint…and why new cars look like mud.
Podcast production by Patrick Fort and Jared Downing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to sleep money your guide to the business and finance news of the week |
| 0:19.7 | but honestly we're going to do the business and finance news of the past six millennia here on this one. |
| 0:26.0 | This is a really big picture show. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times and Slate and places like that. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello. But most excitingly, I'm here with Ed Conway. |
| 0:43.2 | Ed, welcome. |
| 0:44.2 | Hi. |
| 0:45.2 | Ed, who are you? |
| 0:47.8 | Introduce yourself and tell us about this incredible new book that just came out? |
| 0:53.7 | Well, I'm just a guy. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm the economics editor. |
| 0:57.7 | Actually, I'm economics and data. |
| 0:59.1 | Now they added a bit to my title. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm the economics and data editor at Sky News in the UK. I write |
| 1:04.8 | you know columns and things for a few newspapers over here and I've written a book |
| 1:08.0 | called Material World and it's I guess oh God I want to begin it's it's all |
| 1:13.0 | all about the world we inhabit and told through six |
| 1:16.0 | substances without which we all be in big trouble. |
| 1:19.0 | At least one of which is literally necessary for human existence but all of which are |
| 1:24.7 | necessary for contemporary human existence we're gonna dive into everything from |
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