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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week: Trump’s big trade deal deadline expired. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss where the global tariffs stand now, how they relate to the abysmal jobs report, and the Federal Court of Appeals’ challenge on the tariffs’ legality. Then, Nathan Bomey of Axios joins to break down the ways the sports betting boom could be threatening the integrity of major leagues sports and help answer the question of whether it even matters.  In the Slate Plus episode: The big beautiful bag of the summer Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:11.0

Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of August.

0:18.7

We have made it to August, people.

0:20.2

Congratulations. I'm Felix Salmon. I'm here with

0:23.7

Elizabeth Spires. It's the New York Times. Hello. And Emily Peck of Axios. Hi. And we are going to

0:31.3

talk about the August tariffs. Now that we're in August, we know what the tariffs are. We're going to

0:35.9

talk about what all of that means and whether they are going to survive the legal challenge that they are facing.

0:42.5

We are also going to talk to Nathan Bomi of Axios about sports betting and whether it is causing a rise in sports cheating and whether if it did that would be a bad thing or not.

0:54.9

It is a bad thing.

0:56.8

Emily thinks it's a bad thing.

0:59.0

I think it's fine.

1:00.5

We are going to have a third segment on absolutely nothing because it's the summertime.

1:04.7

So we can have a two-segment show this week.

1:07.0

We are going to have a numbers round and we are going to have a sleep plus segment all about

1:12.7

hand beds. So stay tuned. It's all coming up on Slate Money.

1:47.0

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1:56.1

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1:58.3

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2:04.7

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2:11.2

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2:17.1

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2:18.9

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