Slate Money: Disney’s Wrongful Death Nightmare

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🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss Disney’s disastrous attempt to block a man from seeking justice for his deceased wife and the impact of the forced arbitration clauses most of us sign. Also: The political fallout of Kamala Harris’ vague remarks on price control and the White House’s “vibe-rarian,” and what the rise of sports betting means for the financial well-being of ordinary Americans. In the Plus bonus episode: Will a new CEO be a much-needed espresso shot for Starbucks…or another stale cup of decaf? 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. Public.com+Public Investing Disclosure: Public Investing offers a High-Yield Cash Account where funds from this account are automatically deposited into partner banks where they earn interest and are eligible for FDIC insurance; Public Investing is not a bank. See public.com/#disclosures-main for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to sleep the money.
0:04.0	Your G. Hello, and welcome to Sleep Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:17.0	I'm Felix Hammond of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:20.0	Hello, hello?
0:21.0	With Elizabeth Spires, New York Times and places like that.
0:24.0	Elizabeth is a political consultant and so we are going to be consulting with Elizabeth on political
0:31.0	matters and specifically about the whole politics of price gouging and
0:36.5	price controls.
0:38.2	We are going to talk about sports betting and whether it is an investment good or a consumption good and
0:44.5	first of all we're going to lead off with a deep dive into the whole
0:50.2	flawed issue of arbitration versus court cases and what just happened at Disney
0:55.0	World.
0:56.0	We have a whole Slate Plus segment, which is an entire separate segment these days, about
1:00.8	the new Starbucks CEO and his contract, it's all coming up on slate money.
1:07.0	Okay, so Emily, I need to do some real talk with you over this Disney story. You mentioned
1:19.1	it in Axios markets this week, and in fact you had a whole big one big thing about this
1:26.0	terrible state of affairs
1:28.0	that people can get dragged off to secret mandatory arbitration instead of taking companies to court like
1:36.3	God intended. And the Exhibit A that we are all talking about this week is a case at Disney or a case that happened at Disney World where a woman died and then Disney made an unfortunate legal filing and
1:54.4	everything went a bit sideways. Yes exactly so a man signed up for Disney Plus and
2:01.2	found four years later that he could not sue Disney after his wife died at Disney World.
2:08.8	That's like the short explanation.
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