Slate Money: Should You Care About the Dot Plot?

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers explain what the Fed’s interest rate dot plot means. They also talk about Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of video game developer Activision, and the latest details of the SBF scandal. In the Plus segment: the revival of the office holiday party. Podcast production by Anna Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the dot plot episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:22.8	I'm Felix Simon of Axios.
0:24.2	I'm here with Emily Peck, also of Axios.
0:26.7	Hello.
0:27.6	We're here with Elizabeth Spires.
0:29.5	Hi.
0:30.1	And we are going to talk about dot plots.
0:32.4	We are going to talk about the Fed and how important it is and how it communicates and why it's communicating with this weird
0:38.6	thing called a dot plot and what a dot plot is you will learn all about that.
0:42.6	We're going to talk about Lena Khan, who runs the FTC and why she's going after Microsoft.
0:47.6	We are going to talk about Sam Bankman Fried and US extraterritoriality.
0:52.4	We are going to have a slateate Plus segment on holiday parties.
0:56.3	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:01.2	My name is Cadence Sinclair. Some people call us American royalty.
1:08.0	We were liars. A new series on Prime Video.
1:10.9	We were happy. We wanted for nothing. A new series on Prime Video. We were happy.
1:11.9	We wanted for nothing.
1:13.7	Based on the best-selling novel.
1:16.6	Something terrible happened last summer, and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
1:21.6	No one in my family will tell me.
1:23.9	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
1:26.5	We were liars.
	...

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