Slate Money - Rupert Murdoch Plays Succession Games
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, the Slate Money team, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers unpack the Rupert Murdoch family drama, some alleged stock manipulation, and Southwest Airlines’ latest policy change.
In Slate Plus, the crew unpack money transfers, and how a little extra cash could change your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:21.7 | With Elizabeth Spires of all manner of places, including New York Times. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello. |
| 0:26.4 | And we are going to talk about Rupert Murdoch this week, who is up to shenanigans with his |
| 0:34.2 | stake in Foxcourt and News Corp and is trying to give lots of voting power to his son, |
| 0:39.1 | Lachlan, and his various other kids are upset about this. We are going to talk about Andrew Left, |
| 0:45.8 | who is a famous short-seller, now retired to Boca, who has suddenly been charged with 19 counts |
| 0:52.8 | of broad and market manipulation. We are going to talk about |
| 0:56.2 | Southwest Airlines, which is totally changing up its business model. We are going to have a |
| 1:02.0 | slate plus segment about universal cash transfers. And we are going to otherwise just sit back |
| 1:10.5 | and watch the Olympics because it is now Olympic's time. |
| 1:13.4 | And I need to plug next week's show this week. |
| 1:17.6 | We are going to have Henry Graebar of Slate live from Paris. |
| 1:23.3 | And we are going to talk to him all about the architecture of Paris and what is going on in Paris and the street closures and the red zone and the gray zone and the QR codes and the scaffolding and the opening ceremonies. |
| 1:35.4 | So that's something to look forward to next week. |
| 1:38.2 | But for now, we have plenty of juicy stuff coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:53.3 | Okay, so this is a regular slate money. |
| 1:57.5 | This is not Slate Money Succession. |
| 1:59.4 | Succession Season 5 has not suddenly been announced, |
| 2:03.0 | but it kind of has by the New York Times because the streams have crossed and now real life is |
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