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🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the psychic weight of another COVID wave and what it means for the economy, the environmental and employee problems with fast fashion, and what to expect now that Reddit is going public. In the Plus segment: The Block vs Block fight. Mentioned In the show: “’I Was Wrong’: Omicron Wrecks CEOs’ Plans for Office Return” by Jennifer Surane and Angelica LaVito “The End of a Return-to-Office Date” by Emma Goldberg “How Shein beat Amazon at its own game – and reinvented fast fashion” by Louise Meaghan Tobin and Wency Chen Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Check out Work Check here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Bandera episode of Slate Money or Guy to the Business and Finance
0:19.0	News of the Week.
0:20.0	I'm Felix Aminit Axios here with Stacy Murray Ishmael of Bloomberg.
0:25.6	Hello.
0:27.3	And I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundraves.
0:30.3	Hello.
0:31.6	And we are going to talk about bras, t-shirts, jeans and all other forms of fast
0:37.3	fashion.
0:38.0	They are bad for the environment.
0:39.8	They involve all manner of labor abuse, but they are still as popular as ever.
0:45.4	Emily, you have found an amazing Chinese company that has taken over this space with astonishing
0:51.6	speed and effectiveness.
0:54.1	You discovered it.
0:55.1	Well, rest of world discovered it.
0:56.1	We're just going to read the internet.
0:58.4	We are going to talk about Omicron and CEOs and the amount of slight kick stress involved
1:04.3	in living through yet another wave of COVID and what that means for the economy.
1:10.3	We are going to talk about Reddit, which is going public and what we think of it as
1:15.3	a social network.
1:16.6	We are going to have a Slate Plus segment on IP infringement and HNR block.
1:23.0	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:28.5	Stacy, you have now officially given up on going into the office for the rest of the
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