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🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week, as computers crash, computer makers are voting Trump. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the behind-the-scenes company behind the global tech shutdown, why Silicon Valley entrepreneurs like Trump and J.D. Vance, and why ESG has survived while DEI is in the dumps. For Slate Plus members: Why is the swimming pool market drying up? 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.
0:12.7	Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:17.8	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.
0:19.3	I'm here with Elizabeth Spires.
0:20.8	It's in New York Times. Hello. I'm here with Emily Peck of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires. It's New York Times.
0:21.9	Hello.
0:22.6	I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:25.5	Hello, hello.
0:26.5	We are going to talk about the massive cybersecurity shit that happened on Friday with CrowdStrike.
0:35.5	We are going to talk about Silicon Valley and how much it seems to be loving the Trump advance ticket these days.
0:44.3	We are going to talk about the diverging fortunes of DEI and ESG.
0:53.3	Rather than going in the same direction, they seem to possibly be going
0:55.9	in opposite directions these days. We are going to dive into the subject of swimming pools in the
1:02.6	Slate Plus. It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:15.4	My name is Caden Sinclair.
1:18.0	Some people call us American royalty.
1:19.1	We were liars.
1:21.0	A new series on Prime Video.
1:22.1	We were happy.
1:23.5	We wanted for nothing.
1:25.9	Based on the best-selling novel.
1:31.6	Something terrible happened last summer, and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
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