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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined by Slate Pay Dirt columnist, Elizabeth Spiers. They talk about how women (mostly college educated) might be doing okay in the workforce, and what happened when Barclays didn’t check the right box and Axie Infinity didn’t notice it didn’t have an SEC shelf registration. 


In the Plus segment: The inflation and war nexus with gas prices.


Mentioned In the Show: 

Young women earn more than men in 16 U.S. cities” by Emily Peck 

Research: College-educated women did not leave labor force during pandemic” by Emily Peck 

Understanding the economic impact of COVID-19 on women” by Claudia Goldin

Mississippi passes equal pay law with loopholes” by Emily Peck 

Credit Suisse faces US probe after telling investors to ‘destroy documents’ linked to oligarch yacht loans” by Matt Egan


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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:13.7

Hello, welcome to the Yotser Overrated episode of Slate Money.

0:21.7

Your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

0:24.5

I'm Felix Samuel of Axios.

0:26.0

I'm here with Emily Beck.

0:27.4

Also of Axios.

0:28.7

Hi.

0:29.5

We're here with Elizabeth Spires.

0:31.9

Thank you for having me.

0:33.6

And we are going to talk about $600 million fuck-ups.

0:39.1

I guess you could call it that.

0:40.2

There was a $600 million fuck-up at Barclays.

0:43.3

There was a $600 million fuck-up at Axi Infinity.

0:46.9

We're going to talk about what went wrong and what we can learn from those.

0:50.5

We are going to have a whole big Slate Plus segment about the oil price and whether and how the US government is going to try and bring it down.

0:59.0

Not so much the oil price, but mainly the gas price, the gasoline price.

1:03.0

But first we're going to talk about women in the workforce and how much they're getting paid and whether they're actually doing quite well these days, especially if

1:11.5

their college educated. It's all coming up on slate money. Let's start with employment and

1:20.3

especially employment of women because Emily, if we look at the latest jobs report, the

1:26.8

percentage of prime age women in the workforce is

1:30.8

soaring and women seem to be doing great in terms of employment. And you had two stories

1:36.8

this week about how women like didn't leave very much as much as we thought maybe they did

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