Slate Money: McDonald's Fast Food Price War

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🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Fast food prices are sky high, but chains will take losses to get you in the door. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the economics of a new value meal trend. Also: millennials’ are taking secret “quiet vacations” and dicey geopolitics are affecting bond markets. In the Plus segment: Yankee Stadium is now card-payment only. Do Americans have the right to use cold hard cash? 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 regular 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 Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Slate Money,
0:15.0	your guide to the Business and Finance
0:17.0	News of the Week, I'm Felix Simon of Axios
0:19.0	with those of the Spires of New York Times.
0:21.0	Hello.
0:22.0	With Emily Peck of Axios Times. Hello. With Emily Peck, Abaxios.
0:24.0	Hi Felix.
0:25.0	We are going to talk about McDonald's.
0:28.3	They have a $5 meal.
0:30.1	Burger King has matched.
0:31.6	What does this all mean? We are going to talk about this concept
0:36.4	that the Harris Poll has come up with called Quiet Vacationing and whether it's a thing and whether we should
0:41.2	be worried about it. We are going to talk about the Bond
0:44.2	Vigilantes and whether they're back in places like France and the UK. We have a Slate Plus segment
0:51.4	on Yankee Stadium and whether or not truly is accepting cash for payments.
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