Slate Money - Ban the Bra!
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
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
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the band the bra episode of Slate Money, or guide to the business and finance |
| 0:19.1 | news of the week. I'm Felixaman of Axios here with Stacy Marie Ishmael of Balloonburg. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello. And I'm here with Emily Peck of Fund Drives. Hello. And we are going to talk about bras, t-shirts, jeans, and all other forms of fast fashion. |
| 0:38.0 | They are bad for the environment. 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 |
| 0:50.8 | astonishing speed and effectiveness. |
| 0:54.1 | You discovered it. |
| 0:54.8 | Well, the rest of world discovered it. |
| 0:56.0 | We're just gonna read the internet. |
| 0:58.3 | We are gonna talk about Omicron and CEOs |
| 1:01.3 | and the amount of psychic stress involved in living through yet another wave of COVID |
| 1:07.8 | and what that means for the economy. We are going to talk about Reddit, which is going public, and what we think of it, it's a social network. |
| 1:16.3 | We are going to have a Slate Plus segment on IP infringement and H&R Block. it's all coming up on slate money. |
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| 1:58.0 | Stacy, you have now officially given up on going into the office for the rest of the year. |
| 2:04.0 | You are not the only white collar professional to do that. |
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