Slate Money - Ecomagination
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski discuss the current U.S. labor market, the oddities of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and the sad state of GE.
In the Slate Plus segment: Retail investing.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Ecomagination edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance |
| 0:20.1 | News of the Week. I'm Felix |
| 0:21.9 | Samuel of Axios. I'm here in Seaplane Armada Studios in Brooklyn with Jessamine Molly, |
| 0:29.4 | the producer. I am also joined by The Magic of Zoom by Emily Peck of HuffPost. Hello. |
| 0:36.5 | By Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views. Hello. By Anna Shemansky of Breaking Views. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello. |
| 0:40.0 | And we are about to embark upon a lovely three-day weekend. |
| 0:45.7 | It's Labor Day. |
| 0:47.0 | We celebrate the working people of this country and all they do for us. |
| 0:51.0 | So we're going to talk about that. |
| 0:52.1 | We're going to talk about the plate of the workers. |
| 0:55.3 | We are going to talk about the person who's kind of in charge of making sure the economy is |
| 0:59.9 | working for the workers, Mr. Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, whether he's having any success |
| 1:06.2 | on that. And we are going to talk about General Electric, which is a major employer. |
| 1:11.4 | It still has hundreds of thousands of employees, believe it or not, even though its stock price is kind of in the toilet. |
| 1:17.3 | All of that coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:22.4 | So it's Labor Day weekend, Emily. |
| 1:25.8 | And this is probably the most tumultuous period that we have ever had |
| 1:31.7 | in the labor market, at least in living memory, on a Labor Day weekend. And you have written about |
| 1:37.2 | this for HuffPost. And the number that really jumped out at me from your excellent story was looking |
| 1:43.0 | at quartiles. It turns out that if you make |
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