Slate Money - The Lucky Strike Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Anna, Emily, and Felix discuss lower tax refunds, Finland’s income experiment, and labor’s current strengths.
In the Slate Plus segment: the weird labor market in...baseball.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck
Podcast production by Max Jacobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the lucky strike edition of Slate Money or guide to the business and finance |
| 0:18.6 | news of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.3 | Anna Shamansky is here from Finland or thereabouts. |
| 0:26.9 | Yes. |
| 0:27.3 | Michigan. |
| 0:28.1 | Some northern place. |
| 0:29.2 | Michigan, Finland. |
| 0:30.1 | They're all the same. |
| 0:31.3 | Emily Peck is here from the Huffington Post. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello. |
| 0:35.8 | Max Jacobs is in the studio to talk about sports ball. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, Max. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello. |
| 0:41.4 | Max Jacobs is normally on the other side of the glass, but he is going to join us later |
| 0:45.9 | for a deep dive into the economics of baseball and whether the market is clearing |
| 0:52.5 | and what's happening with all of these valuable players who don't seem to be able to get a job. |
| 0:56.8 | That is coming up on Slate Plus, but before we get there, we have a jam-packed show full of labor fights. |
| 1:05.2 | We have people going on strike, especially teachers and people who work from Marriott and people like that. |
| 1:09.7 | We're going to talk about why that is happening. |
| 1:12.6 | We are going to talk about Finland, because Finland is fascinating and they kind of did. |
| 1:18.8 | It's not exactly a universal basic incoming experiment, but it's kind of treated like that. |
| 1:23.2 | We're going to see how that went, and we're going to answer the eternal question of, is it a good |
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