Slate Money: Can Threads Take Down Twitter?

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers talk about Threads, the new competitor to Twitter. They also discuss Janet Yellen’s trip to China and what it means for American foreign policy. Finally, have tipping and service charges gone too far? In the plus segment: Pregnant workers now have more workplace rights. 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 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 Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:19.0	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios here with my colleague Emily Peck.
0:22.7	Hi. We're here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times and other places.
0:27.7	Hello.
0:28.2	We are going to talk about threads, which is the new Twitter killing app from Meta, aka Facebook.
0:35.9	We are going to talk about U.S. China relations.
0:41.1	Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, is in China.
0:43.8	So we're going to talk about what she's saying and what it means and what's happening
0:47.5	to trade between these two countries.
0:49.6	We are going to talk about tipping and service charges and whether it is all out of control.
0:55.9	We have a Slate Plus segment on a new act that is protecting pregnant workers when they're at work.
1:04.9	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:11.6	My name is Caden Sinclair.
1:13.6	Some people call us American royalty.
1:15.6	We were liars.
1:16.6	A new series on Prime Video.
1:19.6	We were happy.
1:20.6	We wanted for nothing.
1:21.6	Based on the best-selling novel.
1:24.6	Something terrible happened last summer,
1:26.6	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
1:30.2	No one in my family will tell me.
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