Slate Money - How the Olympics Has Changed Paris
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🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s Slate Money, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined by Slate’s Henry Grabar and former Slate Money co-host AnnaSzymanski. They dig into Henry’s experience covering the Paris Olympics; what’s in the latest jobs report; and Florida’s experiment with high-speed trains.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the most international episode of Slate Money that I think we have ever recorded. |
| 0:19.5 | I am Felix Salmon of Axios. I am at Seaplane Armada in |
| 0:24.7 | Brooklyn. I am joined by Emily Peck of Axios, who's at home in Westchester. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello, hello, from Westchester. We are most excited because guess who's back on the show, folks. |
| 0:40.8 | But the one and only Anna Shamansky... |
| 0:44.1 | Thank you. Hello. I am coming to you from London. |
| 0:47.6 | You're in London, and somehow, as part of this great life change, |
| 0:51.7 | and we're going to talk more in the Slate Plus about your great life changes, but as part of this great life change of moving to London, you also made a great |
| 0:58.7 | life change of being able to be on Slate Money again. Yes, I am back in the world of financial |
| 1:03.9 | journalism. I am back at Reuters, so I can now, when you want me back, be on Slate Money. Yay. |
| 1:11.3 | So exciting. |
| 1:12.6 | And just to make things even more international, we also have the one and only Henry |
| 1:17.9 | Graber. |
| 1:18.5 | Henry, welcome back. |
| 1:19.9 | Good to be here. |
| 1:20.7 | Thanks, Felix. |
| 1:21.4 | Henry, for those of us who maybe don't recall the wonderful episode we did with your |
| 1:27.2 | parking book. |
| 1:28.7 | Who are you? And also, where are you? |
| 1:30.9 | Well, Felix, I'm a staff writer at Slate. |
| 1:33.0 | I am the author most recently of Paved Paradise, How Parking, Explains the World. |
| 1:38.4 | And I am coming to you from the basement of the Paris Media Center for international journalists covering the Olympic Games, |
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