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🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers talk about the state of working in the United States three years after the COVID pandemic began. They discuss the latest in the efforts in the SEC’s attempts to litigate cryptocurrencies. And finally, can you be a guilt-free investor? If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our show every week. You’ll also 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 Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Labor Day episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:20.2	I'm Felix Hammond of Axios, here with Elizabeth
0:22.3	Spires of New York Times and elsewhere. Hello. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:28.7	Hello, hello. It's Labor Day. We're going to talk about the state of labor in this country.
0:34.7	We're going to talk about whether it has managed to hold on to the gains it
0:38.9	made during the pandemic and whether capital is losing. We're going to talk about the SEC,
0:46.7	which really is losing. It just lost a big case against a company called Grayscale about
0:52.3	crypto. So we're going to ask what that means for
0:54.4	crypto regulation. We are going to talk about stock ownership, which I guess is the converse of
1:01.0	the labor market, right? We're all buying into capital. And whether it comes with the side of guilt
1:06.1	these days and whether you should feel guilty about not voting all of those stocks that you own,
1:10.4	we have a state plus segment on the worst jobs that each of us ever had.
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