Slate Money - Them's The Breaks
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss this week’s good jobs report versus the bad economic vibes, Boris Johnson’s ousting as Prime Minister, and the stark decline in the quality of air travel.
In the Plus segment: What are the odds that two former FBI directors would be audited?
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey you guys guys I thought I would never have to talk about Elon Musk again but today after he finished taping the show |
| 0:06.8 | Elon filed with the SEC that he wants to back out of his 44 billion dollar agreement to buy Twitter setting up kind of a |
| 0:15.1 | phase two in this whole saga. We taped too early in the day on Friday to get to |
| 0:20.0 | this news but you can be sure we'll be back to you next week with more all about it. |
| 0:25.6 | Okay, on to the Them's The Breaks episode of Sleep Money or Guide to the Them's The Breaks episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance |
| 0:45.9 | news have quite a tumultuous week. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm Felix salmon of Axios. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm here with Emily Peck, also of Axios. |
| 0:52.8 | Hi. |
| 0:53.8 | We're here with Elizabeth Spires. |
| 0:55.2 | Hello. |
| 0:56.2 | And we are, well, you two are just looking at Boris Johnson and rolling your eyes and going, |
| 1:03.4 | ha ha, because you don't have, like, you know, |
| 1:07.8 | you don't come from that benighted island. |
| 1:11.0 | Some of us do. |
| 1:12.0 | Anyway, yeah, the UK is falling apart again, the Prime Minister has resigned. |
| 1:16.0 | We're going to talk about what happened there. We're going to talk about the jobs numbers that came out this morning, |
| 1:20.0 | whether we're in a recession, the vibes. We're going to talk about air travel. We are going to wind |
| 1:26.5 | up in a weird digression somewhere in the numbers round about art authentication, because why not? We're going to have a slate plus about |
| 1:34.2 | probabilistic analysis which is much more interesting when it sounds it's |
| 1:37.8 | all coming up on slate money. |
| 1:41.6 | This episode is brought to you by Revolute. Revolute is your perfect travel |
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