Slate Money - Behind Britain’s Bonkers Election
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🗓️ 6 July 2024
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Shira Ovide, who writes the newsletter The Tech Friend for the Washington Post, and Peter Thal Larsen of Reuters, who demystifies the wacky state of European and British politics. Also: Are Chipotle burritos getting smaller? And why did Warren Buffett, top ally of the Gates Foundation, give his money to a not-yet-existing charity, hypothetically managed by his kids? In the Plus segment, it’s a shopping bonanza as the hosts discuss Nieman Marcus’ parent company gobbling up Saks Fifth Avenue.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:12.0 | Hello. Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Felix I'm someone of Axios with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello. Shira Overday of the Washington Post, welcome. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm so pleased to be here. |
| 0:29.0 | We love it when you come on this show. |
| 0:30.0 | You are going to fill in for Emily Peck I guess we can say she is off |
| 0:34.4 | doing a fabulous thing for the 4th of July you are not the only fabulous guest we have on |
| 0:39.3 | the show we are also having a whole segment on the European election craziness which will be elucidated |
| 0:47.1 | by the one and only Peter Thal Larson of breaking views. |
| 0:50.6 | But that's not all we have lined up. |
| 0:52.4 | We're going to talk about Chipotle, which has variation in its burrito sizes people. |
| 0:57.0 | This is a big deal. |
| 0:58.0 | And we are going to talk about Warren Ruffett, of course, because this is my show, and I need to talk about Warren Ruffin, |
| 1:04.6 | and how the hell is he giving $100 billion to absolutely nothing in particular, and how is that going to work? |
| 1:10.0 | And tax evasion and tax avoidance, and all the rest of it. We have a slate-plus segment on |
| 1:14.7 | Sachs and Neiman Marcus and Amazon and the salesforce. It's a meaty and fun one this week |
| 1:20.4 | so it's all coming up on slate money. Sleep Money is brought to you this week by Progressive, the car insurance company. |
| 1:39.9 | You might be doing laundry right now, or you might be going on a hike or you might be |
| 1:45.2 | doing just about anything but you are also listening to this podcast for which |
| 1:48.8 | thank you we appreciate it you are listening to the ads for which you, we appreciate it. |
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