Slate Money - Davos is So Back
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week: World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos is all over the news. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, explain the moments that made headlines and why Davos feels so much more relevant this year. Then, Trump promised to address the affordability crisis at Davos but failed to say much. The hosts discuss what he did say, and how the ongoing crisis is being addressed overall. And finally, a new lawsuit claims that the AI screening tools that have taken over the job hunting landscape should be subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The hosts get into what these tools do now and why this change could be beneficial.
In the Slate Plus episode: Celebrities interviewing celebrities. It’s an epidemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm Felix Salmon of Bloomberg with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times. |
| 0:21.4 | Hello. |
| 0:23.8 | And Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello. |
| 0:29.9 | And we are coming to you live from the Alpine Town of Davos, Switzerland. |
| 0:33.1 | No, we're not. We're coming to you from New York City. But we are going to talk about the Alpine Town of Davos, Switzerland, which has become, like it becomes every year, an Alpine Gab Festival. |
| 0:40.6 | We're going to talk about why it suddenly seems to be super relevant again. |
| 0:44.5 | We are going to talk about the affordability crisis and whether it's a thing that exists. |
| 0:49.8 | We are going to talk about AIs and whether they should be determining who gets jobs or not. |
| 0:55.9 | We have a Slate Plus segment on celebrities interviewing celebrities and who the best interviewers are and why. |
| 1:03.0 | It's a good one this week, so stay tuned. |
| 1:04.9 | It's all coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:24.9 | So back in the day, I used to record Slate Money from Davos. |
| 1:28.3 | I used to book out a Eurovision studio. It's not just a song contest, you know, from the media center and do a special show from |
| 1:34.3 | Davos and be all like, let me tell you what's going on in Davos and what Davos is. |
| 1:38.3 | And everyone would be like, Felix, no one even knows what Davos is. |
| 1:41.3 | It's not important. |
| 1:42.3 | No one cares. |
| 1:43.3 | And then over the years, Davos |
| 1:45.3 | really did become less important and no one really cared. It was just this increasingly |
| 1:52.1 | irrelevant Alpine Gab Fest. And then 2026 happened. And Emily, would you agree with me that |
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