Slate Money: Yachts Are Overrated

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🗓️ 12 January 2015

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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 Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Cheyna Roth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	Hello! Hello welcome to the yach to the yachts are overrated episode of Slate Money
0:21.2	Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:24.4	I'm Felixammer Axios.
0:25.9	I'm here with Emily Peck.
0:27.3	Also of Axios?
0:28.8	Hi.
0:29.8	We're here with Elizabeth Spires.
0:32.2	Thank you for having me.
0:34.0	And we are going to talk about $600 million fuckups.
0:39.0	I guess you could call it out.
0:40.0	There was a $600 million fuckup at Barclays. There was a $ million dollar fuck up at Barclays.
0:43.2	There was a 600 million dollar fuck up at Axi Infinity.
0:46.6	We're going to talk about what went wrong and what we can learn from those.
0:50.2	We are going to have a whole big slate plus segment about the oil price and
0:55.3	whether and how the US government is going to try and bring it down. Not so much
0:59.3	the oil price, but mainly the gas price, the gasoline price. But first we're going to talk about women in the
1:04.9	workforce and how much they're getting paid and whether they're actually doing quite well these days
1:10.8	especially if they're college educated. It's all coming up on slate money.
1:17.0	This episode is brought to you by Krakan.
1:20.0	crypto is like the financial system, but different.
1:24.0	He doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,
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