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🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week: The stock market is coming back after its post Liberation Day fall. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss what this does, and mostly doesn’t, signal about the economy under Trump. Then, one stock that is not doing well at all is the UnitedHealth Group. The hosts explain the perfect storm the company has found itself in, and examine if that’s actually the reason for its decline in the market. And finally, did you know there was insurance for self-defense shootings and AI chatbot errors? In the Slate Plus episode: Can a (very expensive) calendar fix your marriage? Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm
0:18.4	Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:22.0	Hello.
0:22.8	I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times.
0:26.3	Hello.
0:26.9	We are going to talk about stonks.
0:29.5	The stock market is up.
0:31.0	It is higher than it was at the beginning of the year.
0:33.5	It is higher than it was on Liberation Day.
0:36.3	What's up with that?
0:39.8	We will answer. We will talk about a different song, United Health Group, which is down, lost half its value in the past month.
0:45.8	Is this its comeuppance, a bad behavior? We will talk about other weird insurance stories.
0:53.6	Like, can you insure against being arrested for killing someone?
0:58.0	We have a Slate Plus segment on a $700 calendar that may or may not be able to save your marriage.
1:05.0	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
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