Slate Money - Having Children is Hard
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the disappointing jobs report and how it relates to falling birth rates, the Bill and Melinda Gates divorce news and Trump’s Facebook ban.
In the Plus segment: The Peloton treadmill recall.
Mentioned in the show:
“The Great Birth Rate Freak-Out” by Jill Filipovic
MIT Media Lab director resigns over financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein” by Felix Salmon for Axios
“How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein” by Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to the having children is hard episode of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:19.4 | Business and Finance News of the week. I'm Felix |
| 0:22.5 | Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael. Hello. I'm here with Emily Peck. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi. And we are going to be talking about the jobs report this week, which was a massive disappointment. |
| 0:34.9 | And we're going to zoom back and talk a lot about what that means in |
| 0:39.3 | terms of having children and things like that. We're going to talk about the Facebook |
| 0:46.1 | oversight board and their decision to approve Facebook's decision to kick Donald Trump |
| 0:53.2 | off the platform. |
| 1:03.9 | And of course, we are going to talk about the richest couple to ever get divorced in the history of the planet, Bill and Linda Gates. Wait, are you sure about that? |
| 1:05.3 | Doesn't Jeff Bezos have more money than Bill Gates? |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah, he does. |
| 1:08.8 | He's richer. |
| 1:09.3 | Oh, maybe the second richest couple to ever get the world. |
| 1:14.0 | I think, yeah. |
| 1:15.5 | We also have a Slate Plus segment on Peloton and their new recall of the Treadplus treadmill, |
| 1:24.2 | which they said they wouldn't recall, and now they're recalling. |
| 1:26.3 | All of that coming up on |
| 1:28.1 | Slate Money. I'm just going to come out and say that the jobs report we had on Friday morning was |
| 1:38.2 | the biggest miss in the history of the jobs report. We have never seen economists get it so wrong. Everyone was saying |
| 1:46.0 | probably a million, conceivably two million. The economy is firing on all cylinders. Jobs |
| 1:52.1 | are being created left and right. And in the end, we got an absolutely dismal number. We barely |
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