Slate Money: Biden Zaps Chinese EVs

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🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the motivations and impacts of new tariffs plus the cultural forces behind China’s economic policy. Also: Congress is trying to figure out what to do with AI, and Melinda French Gates is getting her groove back. In the Plus segment: Rates for new mortgages suck right now, but what if you could buy out someone existing one? Also: Do you have a donor-advised fund? Do you pay fees on it? Felix invites you to weigh in on his Axios poll for DAF holdersl If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our regular show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:11.0	Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:17.4	I'm Felix Simon of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:20.3	Hello.
0:20.8	With Elizabeth Spires of New York Times.
0:23.0	Hello. This is a fun one. We are going to talk about Chinese terrorists. Do not turn the channel
0:29.0	or whatever he does on the podcast. We are having a genuinely fun and interesting conversation about
0:35.7	the terrorists that Joe Biden has announced on China and whether
0:39.6	they're important and why they're important and what this means about like the Chinese
0:43.1	Communist Party's conception of communism. We are also talking about the plan that the Senate has
0:49.9	to getting a grip on AI. We are talking about Melinda French Gates
0:54.4	and why she's leaving the Gates Foundation.
0:56.4	We have a Slate Plus segment
0:57.9	on throwing spaghetti to the wall
1:00.1	and what that has to do with the seemingly
1:01.3	mortgages.
1:02.5	It's a good one.
1:03.6	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:16.1	I made your same key street. My name is Caden Sinclair.
1:18.6	Some people call us American royalty.
1:19.8	We were liars.
1:21.7	A new series on Prime Video.
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