Slate Money: The Economic Tale of the Writers Strike

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers talk about the ongoing WGA strike, the latest news on the Fed’s fight against inflation, and how CEOs are courting Chinese business while staying in America’s good graces. In the Plus segment, movie theaters are trying everything to get you back into the cinema, including booze and gourmet food. 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 Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the
0:15.2	week.
0:16.2	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, I'm here with my colleague Emily Peck of Axios.
0:20.6	Hi.
0:21.6	I'm here with Liz with Spires who writes at New York Times and is also a freelance writer
0:26.2	for other places.
0:27.2	Hello.
0:28.2	We are going to talk about freelance writers and specifically the ones who are members
0:32.9	of the WGA union who are on strike.
0:36.2	What is going on with the writer's strike is a good idea, what are the economics.
0:40.2	We will unpack all of that, we will talk about monetary policy and the Fed and whether
0:44.3	they're going to raise interest rates or not, what difference it would make.
0:47.8	We are going to talk about China and whether the big CEOs of the world are going to be able
0:54.4	to countervail against the G7 and all of the anti-China sentiment that is coming out
1:00.2	of the US government and other governments.
1:03.1	We have a Slate Plus segment on luxury amenities in movie theatres, it's all coming up on Slate
1:11.5	Money.
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