The Economy’s ‘One Guy Problem’

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week: Trump’s erratic tariff policies are creating a lot of volatility in the markets. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by investments expert Barry Ritholtz to unpack the week’s wild tariff news and this uniquely unpredictable situation where one person’s decisions are having a huge effect on the markets. Then, Barry helps the hosts understand investing in this environment with lessons from his new book ‘How Not To Invest’. In the Slate Plus episode: The trouble with leaf blowers. 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 and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello!
0:11.0	Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of an absolutely world historically crazy week in economy, in markets and everything.
0:25.1	I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires, it's New York Times.
0:29.6	Hello.
0:30.1	With Emily Peck of Axios.
0:32.3	Hello, hello.
0:33.1	And we cannot do this ourselves. This week we need to bring in the big guns.
0:38.7	So we have the biggest gun of them all.
0:41.4	Mr. Barry Ritholtz.
0:43.3	Barry, welcome.
0:44.3	Thank you so much for having me.
0:45.8	I'm looking forward to a robust discussion.
0:48.7	We're going to talk about a lot of things.
0:50.5	We're going to talk about the tariffs.
0:52.0	We're going to talk about the market volatility.
0:53.6	We're going to talk about your book, actually, which is out now. Plug it. What is it?
0:59.8	How not to invest the ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth and how to avoid them.
1:06.6	All right. We are going to talk about pretty much the craziest week that I can remember since the pandemic.
1:12.3	I don't even think that's arguable.
1:13.8	It is a fun conversation.
1:16.7	And just in case you want some counter-programming, you should subscribe to Slate Plus because we have an important debate about leaf blowers.
1:25.6	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
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