Proxy for Vibes
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined by Elizabeth Spiers, co-author of the Slate Pay Dirt column. They talk about whether the fed hike is a big deal, the American dollar and why it might not be around forever, and Citigroup providing red state employees travel benefits to access abortion clinics.
In the Plus segment: Sarah Bloom Raskin withdrawing her nomination for Fed vice chair.
Mentioned In the Show:
“Axios Markets” by Emily Peck and Matt Phillips
“Poll: Just 24% of workers think their employer cares about their well-being” by Emily Peck
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Cheyna Roth
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome to the proxy for vibes episode of Slate Money or guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck, also of Axios. |
| 0:25.3 | Hello. And we have a very special guest this week. Elizabeth Spires, welcome. |
| 0:33.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:35.0 | Introduce yourself, Elizabeth. |
| 0:37.0 | Like, we go way back, but who are you and what are you up to these days? |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, I think I've known Felix for two decades now |
| 0:45.0 | from early, early New York blogging days. |
| 0:48.0 | But I'm mostly a political commentator these days. |
| 0:50.5 | I write a lot of political columns, |
| 0:52.1 | but I also co-author the pay-irt column here at |
| 0:56.0 | Slate with my co-author Athena Valentine and we write about sort of ethics of money issues. |
| 1:02.6 | We get a lot of letters about people who are very mad |
| 1:06.6 | at whatever they inherited. |
| 1:08.0 | So if you have an issue or a problem |
| 1:11.8 | that you're dealing with where you want advice from either of us, you can email |
| 1:17.2 | slate anonymously and send us your questions and your problems and we will try to help you out. |
| 1:23.0 | Exciting. |
| 1:24.0 | We have no personal finance content in this here's show, |
| 1:28.0 | but maybe that can be rectified in the future episode. |
| 1:32.0 | Can we do an all-advice episode of slate money? |
| 1:35.0 | That'd be so fun. |
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