Slate Money - Disney's Wish Upon a (Pop) Star
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
BREAKING NEWS: Felix Salmon paid money to watch the Taylor Swift concert movie, he reveals it in a tell-all chat with Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers. They discuss CEO Bob Iger’s efforts to keep Disney the fairest entertainment company in the land and why New York Community Bank’s financial straits could be a win for ordinary renters. Also, has the backlash against the SAT test been misguided? Dartmouth thinks so. In the Plus segment, the gang explains Superbowl commercial trends.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:12.0 | Hello, welcome to Slate Money, |
| 0:15.0 | your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Felix Simon of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello, hello? |
| 0:22.0 | With Elizabeth Spires of some fabulous new sub-stack news that are called what? |
| 0:27.4 | The New York Times? |
| 0:29.3 | My new one is Button Down. |
| 0:31.0 | Button down. |
| 0:32.0 | I like it. |
| 0:33.0 | Like my shirts. |
| 0:34.0 | We are going to talk about all manner of fun things this week, |
| 0:37.0 | starting with Disney. |
| 0:38.0 | It's in the middle of a proxy fight. |
| 0:40.0 | They had a bunch of big announcements involving Fort Knight and Sports and other stuff, so we're going to talk about that. |
| 0:46.4 | We are going to talk about New York Community Bancore, which may or may not be in crisis, and I think we all come to a conclusion about whether it is or not. We are going to a conclusion about whether it is or not. We are going to talk about |
| 0:57.0 | the SAT and whether it is a good thing or a bad thing. We have a whole Sleep Plus segment on Super Bowl ads. It's all coming up on |
| 1:07.3 | slate money. |
| 1:09.3 | Slate money is sponsored this week by Progressive. You aren't just listening to a |
| 1:18.0 | podcast right now. You're doing something else. You're driving, you're |
| 1:21.0 | exercising, you're cleaning. You know what else you could be doing? |
| 1:24.0 | You could be saving money by switching to progressive. |
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