Slate Money - Billionaire Slap Fight
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the deconglomeration of Johnson & Johnson and General Electric, the impact worker revenge has on inflation, and Elon Musk’s big Twitter poll costing him ten percent of his stocks.
In the Plus segment: Talking on background.
Mentioned in the show:
“’It’s a walkout!’ Inside the fast-food workers’ season of rebellion” by Greg Jaffe
“Updating The Verge’s background policy” by Nilay Patel
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the billionaire slap fight episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of a |
| 0:25.0 | news, business and finance. I am Felix Simon of Axios. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundraise. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, oh my God, how much do we have to talk about today? |
| 0:38.0 | So much. |
| 0:40.0 | We have Elon Musk, we have Rivian. We have IPOs. We have capital gains taxes. We have |
| 0:47.5 | inflation. We have people quitting their jobs. We have Johnson and Johnson, we have General Electric, we have the end of the conglomerate, |
| 0:56.3 | we have so much that we had to take the whole bit about people going off the record and put it into |
| 1:02.3 | Slate Plus. |
| 1:03.1 | It is a jam-packed show. |
| 1:06.2 | We are gonna somehow manage to squeeze image and heap |
| 1:09.9 | into there. |
| 1:10.8 | Everything is in here. NFTs, you name it, crypto. Stay tuned because this is the Nupless Ultra of Slate |
| 1:19.7 | Monies. It's all coming up after this. |
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