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🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week: A judge has blocked a Biden era rule that would prevent medical debt from affecting credit scores. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss the logic behind the proposed rule and the economic consequences of this decision. Then, the French Prime Minister has proposed eliminating two national holidays as a way of reducing the national debt. The hosts discuss the likely efficacy of the plan, as well as Trump’s similar suggestion about axing Juneteenth. Finally, Trump made a post implying that Coca-Cola has agreed to use sugar cane instead of high fructose corn syrup in their US products– a claim which the company seems to dispute. What would such a change mean for the corn and sugar industries? And more importantly, which version of Coke actually tastes better? In the Slate Plus episode: The Protein Obsession is Helping Cheese Farmers 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. 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 week.
0:17.6	I'm Felix Salmon.
0:18.6	I'm here with Elizabeth Spires at New York Times. Hello. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires, in New York Times.
0:21.5	Hello.
0:22.1	I'm here with Emily Peck, Axios.
0:24.5	Hello, hello.
0:25.6	And we are going to be talking about medical costs and whether and when and how and why they might show up on your credit report.
0:33.7	We are going to be talking about cane sugar and whether it should be replaced by,
0:40.9	or whether it should replace high fructose corn syrup in Coca-Cola. We are going to talk about
0:46.8	holidays and whether countries should have fewer of them. We have rather deranged
0:53.1	steak plus segment about cheese. Yeah,
0:57.9	it's all coming up on Slate Money. Oh, that's my prime delivery.
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