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🗓️ 22 October 2022

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by design critic Alexandra Lange to talk about her book Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall on the evolution of shopping malls in America. In the Plus segment: How online shopping has affected malls. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about Avast One at Avast.com If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.4	Hello, welcome to the meet me by the fountain episode of Slate Money, your guide to what
1:19.2	is normally the business and finance news of the week, but this week is the business
1:23.9	and finance news of shopping malls.
1:26.2	We are devoting this entire episode to shopping malls which are the best subject.
1:30.7	It's not just me, Felix Amin of Axios and Emily Peck of Axios and Elizabeth Spires.
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