Slate Money: Elon’s Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

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4.6 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the biggest business, tech and finance stories of the week. This week, Fox News settles with Dominion, Elon’s rocketship blows up, and Apple has a savings account now. In the plus: Quantifying the value of domestic labor. 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 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 Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the rapid unscheduled disassembly episode of Slate Money, your guide
0:18.5	to the business and finance news of what has been a week of many blow ups.
0:23.8	I'm Felix Salmon, I'm here with Emily Peck, I'm here with Elizabeth
0:29.9	Spires of the New York Times and other places.
0:33.0	Hello.
0:34.0	Fox News exploded and wound up having to bleed $787.5 million all over
0:40.9	Dominion voting systems.
0:42.2	We're going to talk about that.
0:43.5	SpaceX had a starship which exploded which is either bad or good depending on
0:49.5	how you look at it.
0:50.2	We're going to talk about that and basically the bigger picture of is there a
0:54.9	big public utility to having private companies that can take risks.
0:59.5	We are going to talk about the Apple savings account and also just bank accounts more
1:04.0	generally and why they are.
1:06.3	We have a Slate Plus segment where Emily will explain why it's so important to have
1:10.6	data about the car economy much of which we just don't have right now.
1:14.4	It's all coming up.
1:29.5	This episode of Slate Money is brought to you by progressive insurance which is well
1:57.2	aware of the fact that you are in control.
2:00.7	You call the shots of what podcast you listen to.
2:03.8	Maybe you listening to celebrity interviews.
2:06.2	Maybe you prefer Slate Money because it's because you depth and insight.
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