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🗓️ 4 July 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck are joined by Reuters Media Editor Edmund Lee to revisit their 2016 predictions for the Comcast/NCBUniversal merger, now that the companies have announced their split. Then, they explore how the World Cup fits into our very American media landscape. And finally, the hosts look at Donald Trump’s latest mandatory earnings disclosure, which revealed that he’s made over a billion dollars on crypto ventures since his reelection.
In the Slate Plus episode: Oh No! The Anchovies!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Felix Sandwin of Bloomberg. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times. Hello. With Emily Peck of Axios. Hello, hello. And, oh my God, people, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back? It's Edmund Lee of Reuters. How you doing? Ed, we haven't actually had you on this show since you've been back at Roiders. That is true. |
| 0:38.1 | Well, I only just started some weeks ago, so you caught me early. |
| 0:42.0 | You need no introduction because you are the best guest on this here podcast. |
| 0:46.2 | But for those of us who may be tuning in for the first time, who are you? |
| 0:51.8 | I am the newly appointed media editor here at Reuters, but I have been covering speak for a first time. Who are you? I am the newly appointed media editor here at Reuters, |
| 0:55.1 | but I have been covering the speed for a long time, |
| 0:58.2 | longer than I care to admit. |
| 0:59.8 | Also, in addition to that, |
| 1:01.9 | a very regular Felix Salmon debater and... |
| 1:06.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | Caller Outer of Incorrect. |
| 1:09.6 | We'll thumb wrestle after this. |
| 1:11.3 | The reason we have asked you on this show this week in particular is because there is a big piece of M&A news in the media industry, which only Ed Lee has the Nouse and the insight to be able to unpack. |
| 1:23.9 | So we're going to have you do that. |
| 1:25.7 | We are going to talk about the World Cup and the ratings thereof. |
| 1:30.0 | We are going to talk about the billions. |
| 1:33.9 | That is not an exaggeration. |
| 1:35.2 | Literally billions of dollars that Donald Trump seems to have made in a single year. |
| 1:39.6 | We have a must-listen, Slate Plus episode, if I do say so myself, on anchovies |
| 1:46.3 | and croissons. |
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