The Week of Minor Apocalypses

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week: South Korea and France are the latest governments to fall apart. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the public conversation around the failures of the US healthcare system that was sparked by the shocking murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Then, South Korea and France follow Germany in having a governmental meltdown. What’s going on with all of this political chaos? And finally, the hosts discuss a piece in The Ringer about why headlights are just way too bright and what, if anything, is being done about it. In the Slate Plus episode: The conclusion on Felix and Emily’s year long bet about ETFs and Bitcoin. 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 and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:18.5	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios with Emily Pack of Axios.
0:21.1	Hello, hello. With Elizabeth Spires of Slate, New York Times, places like that.
0:26.0	Hello. We are going to talk about the craziness that is happening in democracies around the world.
0:33.4	We've had various crazy in France. We've had various crazy in South Korea, and whether things
0:39.5	are just going off the rails generally in the world.
0:44.0	We are going to talk about headlights and what on earth is happening to them and whether
0:49.0	they're blinding people and the roads are becoming less safe as a result.
0:52.9	We have a slate plus segment, which is ostensibly about Bitcoin,
0:57.0	that somehow segues into a discussion about glass technology.
1:01.0	And of course, we are going to start by talking about the pretty tragic news in Manhattan this week,
1:07.5	where an executive was killed and we're we could talk a bit about health insurance
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