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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, Axios tech and policy reporter Ashley Gold joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers to discuss the scuttled Spirit/Jet Blue merger and the ambitious anti-trust efforts of Trade Commission chair Lina Kahn. Also: how hybrid work won the office wars and why conflict in the Middle East isn’t really affecting oil prices. In the Slate Plus segment: Will a squabble with Epic Games crack Apple’s stranglehold on the app market?
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| 0:17.0 | Hello, welcome to sleep money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Taiment of Axios. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of Sleep, real time places like that. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello. |
| 0:29.0 | In a minute we're going to be here with Ashley Gold of Axios because she is going to join |
| 0:35.7 | us to talk about antitrust. There's been some big antitrust news this week. JetBlue |
| 0:40.9 | was banned from Buying Spirit Airlines. |
| 0:43.1 | We're going to talk about that and the bigger picture of what is going on. |
| 0:46.4 | Such a wide-ranging conversation that even spills over into the Slate Plus, |
| 0:51.1 | where we talk about Epic versus Apple and the App Store |
| 0:55.0 | monopoly. We also have a return to office segment. We're going to talk about |
| 0:59.7 | who's back in the office, who isn't. We're going to talk about oil markets and the oil price |
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