Slate Money - America is Beating Everyone
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers explain why factories, energy, stimulus money, and immigration have helped the U.S. economy succeed where its rivals struggle. Also: The failed Universal Music deal that silenced Taylor Swift music on TikTok, and why a typo by Lyft was the scourge of after-hours traders. In the Plus segment: Why is chocolate chip ice cream so hard to find?
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| 0:00.0 | This ad-free podcast is part of your Slate Plus membership. Hello! |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Slate Money. |
| 0:18.0 | Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Felix Simon of Axios with Financial Advice Columnist Elizabeth |
| 0:26.3 | Spires. |
| 0:27.3 | Hello. |
| 0:28.3 | With Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello. |
| 0:31.3 | We are going to talk about the U.S. economy and why it's doing so well and Emily has an |
| 0:38.0 | astonishing five-part list which explains everything. This is all you need to listen to to understand the world. |
| 0:44.6 | We are going to talk about Universal Music Group and their fight with Tik-Tok. We are going to talk |
| 0:51.7 | about Lift and its earnings typo. |
| 0:54.4 | We have a slate plus segment about chocolate chip ice cream, which is |
| 0:58.9 | revelatory. |
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