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Slate Money: Elon’s Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

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41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 54 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

0:18.2

guide to the business and finance news of what has been a week of many blow ups.

0:23.8

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios, I'm here with Elizabeth

0:29.9

Spires of the New York Times and other places. Hello.

0:34.0

Fox News exploded and wound up having to bleed $787.5 million all over Dominion voting systems,

0:42.0

we're going to talk about that. Space X had a starship which exploded which is either bad or good,

0:48.7

depending on how you look at it. We're going to talk about that and basically the bigger picture of

0:54.4

is there a big public utility to having private companies that can take risks?

0:59.2

We are going to talk about the Apple Savings account and also just bank accounts more generally

1:04.4

and why they are, why they are. We have a Slate Plus segment where Emily will explain why it's so

1:09.9

important to have data about the care economy, much of which we just don't have right now.

1:14.3

It's all coming up. Alex met Sam at nursery, they were first loves, they built

1:22.4

forts together, shared sandwiches in high school and were each other's first kiss.

1:29.9

They were the dream couple until Sam got into EDM music.

1:36.3

While Alex enjoyed folk, first loves a kind of like your current account. If they aren't working

1:43.5

for you anymore, maybe it's time to switch with the current account switch service.

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