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Slate Money

Pandemic of Rage

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss the effects of the Delta variant, rising gas prices, and the rise of ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ fintech.  In the Plus segment: Mr. White Hat. Mentioned in the Show: “How the Pandemic Now Ends’,” by Ed Yong for the Atlantic  “Biden’s OPEC Plea Is Really Directed at Anxious Drivers,” by Liam Denning for Bloomberg “How Sweden Became the Silicon Valley of Europe,” by Colm Fulton and Supantha Mukherjee for Reuters  Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.1

Hello and welcome to the pandemic of rage episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

0:21.1

I'm Felix Hammond of Axios, I'm here with Stacy Marie Ishmael.

0:24.8

Hello from Rageville.

0:27.2

Stacy is in Austin, Texas, the capital of Texas, full of very angry politicians, including Ted Cruz. I'm here also with

0:35.4

Emily Peck of Fundrise. Hello. Who's in a comfortable New York State

0:41.3

suburb and we are going to talk about Delta. We haven't talked about it nearly enough on this show.

0:46.7

We're going to talk about how it is changing the country and the world.

0:50.0

We are also going to talk about Joe Biden.

0:53.5

We haven't talked about him much on this show since he became president,

0:56.2

but he came out this week and wrote a letter to OPEC.

0:59.0

So we're going to talk about his letter to OPEC.

1:01.0

And we're going to talk about gas prices and how and whether they matter.

1:06.2

And we are going to talk quite a lot about buy now pay later, which is the sexy new Gen Z way of buying things on credit that and a slate plus segment on

1:18.5

mr white hat the person who stole six hundred and eleven dollars of crypto, and then gave it back.

1:24.8

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1:29.3

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