Slate Money - Male Mass Hysteria
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Edmund Lee of the New York Times joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael to talk about AT&T's massive WarnerMedia-Discovery merger, this week’s Bitcoin crash, and burnout.
In the Plus segment: Future media merger speculation.
Mentioned in the show:
“U.S. Telecoms Decide Focusing on Pipes Isn’t So Dumb After All,” by Nic Fildes, Anna Nicolaou ,and Sujeet Indap for the Financial Times
“‘Why the Bitcoin Crash Was a Big Win for Cryptocurrencies,” by Jim Bianco for Bloomberg
“The Lie of ‘No One Wants to Work’,” by Gaby Del Valle for Eater
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the male mass hysteria episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business |
| 0:19.0 | and finance news of a pretty big news week. |
| 0:23.2 | We saw exactly what's promised in the title, a bunch of mail mass hysteria surrounding |
| 0:29.0 | cryptocurrencies and bitcoins and blockchains and Ethereums and all of that kind of stuff. |
| 0:34.3 | We're going to talk about that. |
| 0:36.4 | Wait, who's we? |
| 0:38.8 | It's me. It's Felix Salmon of Axios. It's... Let me just start that one from the beginning. No, that was so amazing. |
| 0:46.3 | Keep it. Keep it. That's good. All right. It's me. It's Felix Ammon of Axios. It's Emily Peck. Welcome. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello. |
| 0:57.1 | It's Stacey Marie Ishmael. Welcome. |
| 0:57.9 | Hello. |
| 1:05.1 | But most excitingly, this is the Ed show. Edmund Lee, welcome back to Slate Money. |
| 1:07.3 | Always fun to be here. Thank you. |
| 1:11.8 | We love you on this show so much. And you are here, partly to talk about cryptocurrencies and partly to talk about burnout in the workplace, but mainly to talk about the |
| 1:17.7 | biggest news of the week, which was Discovery Warner Media. Disco Warner. AKA AT&T, you know, |
| 1:24.8 | wants a redo on its media strategy. |
| 1:28.7 | It's taking a mulligan. |
| 1:29.1 | Yes. |
| 1:34.0 | So we are going to talk a lot about media because Ed's here and Ed's awesome. |
| 1:39.7 | And we're even going to have even more in Slate Plus, a bit less AT&T and a bit more Amazon. It's all coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:44.6 | So Ed, since you're here, we really have to start with the mega merger of the, |
| 1:50.5 | not even a week. |
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