Our Surprisingly Great Year
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🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and guest host Edmund Lee, media reporter for the New York Times, recap the 2023 economic year, which saw strong growth, reduced inflation, and soaring stocks. Also: What a potential Warner Bros.-Paramount merger means for the entertainment business, and why a growing number of pedestrians are being killed by cars at night. In the Plus segment: Can the news industry profit from ChatGPT?
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| 0:17.4 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. I'm Felix Hammond of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:21.6 | Hello. And very excitingly, back on the show for what the 87th time we can never get enough of him. |
| 0:29.4 | Ed Lee of the New York Times. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello. |
| 0:33.0 | So happy to be here. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome back, Ed. |
| 0:36.0 | We love having you and we invited you on this show and you said yes. |
| 0:41.0 | And then in order to just make all the stars a line we we |
| 0:46.0 | forced our colleagues Sarah Fisher at Axios to come out with a big scoop about |
| 0:52.2 | Warner Brothers Discovery possibly buying Paramount |
| 0:55.8 | So we're gonna talk about that because you of course are the king of all media insight |
| 1:01.6 | We are going to talk about just the economy broadly because we need to talk |
| 1:07.0 | about what happened in 2023. It was kind of a big deal. We are going to talk about pedestrian |
| 1:12.1 | deaths in the United States and why they're rising. |
| 1:15.0 | If you're going to listen to one Slate Plus segment this year, you should really listen to the Slate Plus segment, |
| 1:20.0 | which we talk about news organizations and how they make money and whether they can charge |
| 1:25.1 | open AI and robots to license all of their content. |
| 1:29.9 | It's all coming up on on slate money. |
| 1:35.0 | This episode is brought to you by Splunk. |
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