Slate Money - The Car Talk Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
GM’s plant closures, Carlos Ghosn in hot water, Trump trash-talking the Fed, and whether or not we should care about Apple & Microsoft’s Market Cap with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and Emily Peck.
In the Slate Plus segment, Felix, Anna, and Emily discuss new data on gender pay disparity.
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello, welcome to the car talk edition of sleep money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I am joined by Anna Shamansky of Michigan. |
| 0:32.0 | Yes. |
| 0:33.0 | The woman who has, who got her driver's license at the age of never. |
| 0:39.2 | And I'm also joined by Amley Peck of the Huffington Post who got her driver's license at the age of... |
| 0:46.8 | I think 40, but maybe it was 42. Unclear. |
| 0:50.3 | Somewhere around there. |
| 0:51.3 | Recently. |
| 0:52.0 | Which makes me the, you know, early adopter when it came to driving because I was 33, I think, when I got mine. |
| 1:00.9 | We obviously are, we were obviously jumping into cars at the first available opportunity. |
| 1:06.0 | We are bad Gen X's. |
| 1:07.7 | What can I say? |
| 1:08.6 | Really, really bad. |
| 1:09.3 | We were meant to be the last generation which cared about cars and none of us cared about cars. We're very forward thinking. We're millennial like Gen Xers. Yeah, we were ahead of the curve. Yes. I think I'm technically a millennial depending on some measurements. I'm saying 1980 is the cut of. Okay. Then I am. There you go. All right. |
| 1:30.5 | So Anna Shamansky is the millennial who never learned to drive. She's ruined everything. |
| 1:31.7 | And she is going to explain to us why General Motors is having to fire 14,000 people because I guess millennials aren't driving. |
| 1:42.8 | We can go into a bit more detail about that. |
| 1:45.1 | We are going to talk about the Fed because it was a big Fed week this week. |
| 1:51.9 | We had a big speech from Jay Powell. |
| 1:53.7 | We're going to talk a little bit about the Fed, whether it's going to stop raising rates |
| 1:58.4 | and what on earth Mr. Trump is doing, talking about all of |
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