Slate Money: Tesla’s Toxic Relationship With Musk

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week: Elon Musk wants his colossal, court-blocked pay package, and Tesla’s board wants to give it to him. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers also chat with Alicia Montgomery, current Slate audio VP and veteran of NPR, to discuss what is — and isn’t — behind NPR’s troubles. Also: inflation is high, but does the Fed really need to cut rates? In the Plus segment: Why Biden is going after Chinese steel. 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 and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:18.0	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and elsewhere,
0:23.5	with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:25.5	Hey, Felix.
0:26.2	We are going to talk about Elon again this week. I can see Emily Peck's eyes rolling.
0:33.0	Emily has weirdly, I wouldn't say pro-Elon stance, but she thinks he's going to win. I'm not so
0:39.8	convinced his latest big vote that's coming up. We're going to talk about that prediction of
0:45.2	Emily's, and we are also going to talk about Emily's other big prediction, which is the
0:49.3	interest rates not going to get cut this year. We are also very excitingly going to be talking to our boss,
0:55.7	Alicia Montgomery, about NPR and what's been going on there. We have a Slate Plus segment about
1:02.6	steel tariffs. It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:12.5	I made you think in the street. Money. My name is Caden Sinclair.
1:17.1	Some people call us American royalty.
1:19.5	We were liars.
1:20.4	A new series on Prime Video.
1:22.5	We were happy.
1:23.6	We wanted for nothing.
1:25.4	Based on the best-selling novel.
1:28.1	Something terrible happened last summer, and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
1:33.2	No one in my family will tell me.
1:35.5	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
1:38.1	We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
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