Slate Money: We Can’t Quit Elon

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🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, Emily Peck, Elizabeth Spiers and guest host Ed Lee discuss inflation, the first policymaker to win an economics Nobel Prize, and begrudgingly, updates in the Elon Musk Twitter saga. In the Plus segment: introducing a new anti-woke bank. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll 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 Anna Phillips. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:22.1	Hello and welcome to the We Can't Quit Elon edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
1:23.9	I am Emily Peck.
1:31.1	I'll be your host today, and I am here with Elizabeth Spires. Hello. No Felix this week. He's off gallivanting in Italy, but in his place, we have the amazing Ed Lee. Hello, hello. It's fun to be back.
1:38.1	And Ed is... I'm an editor at the New York Times, of all places. So, yeah, I know, but don't hold it against me.
1:47.1	No, we will hold nothing against you. I'm actually not a bad guy. Ed and Liz and I, we're going to
1:52.1	talk today about Nobel Prize winners. We are going to talk about Elon Musk again. I'm sorry,
2:03.3	but it had to be done. And of course,
2:09.4	we are going to start off by talking about my favorite word, the inflage. And that is all coming up on Slate Money.
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