Slate Money: The China Problem

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers go over China’s expanding role in the international debt market. They discuss a new problem with the American mortgage system, and dive into the wild world of the collectibles market. In the Plus segment, Rupert Murdoch’s email divorce. 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 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 Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the China problem episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:18.6	I'm Felix Simon of Axios, here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:22.6	Hi.
0:23.6	With Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and other places.
0:27.6	Hello.
0:28.6	And we are going to talk about China.
0:30.6	We're going to talk about how they seem to be throwing a spanner in the works of international sovereign debt restructuring, we are going to talk
0:39.7	about collectibles and why people are spending tens of thousands of dollars on videotapes of
0:46.4	Rocky. We are going to be talking about mortgages and why a whole bunch of people who should
0:52.2	really be able to get a mortgage, can't get a mortgage.
0:55.3	We have a Slate Plus segment about Rupert Murdoch,
0:59.7	which presages this coming Monday's Slate Money succession.
1:03.9	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
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