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Slate Money - The Where's My Tax Cut? Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Tax cuts, jobs, and Slate 90 on this week's episode with Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, Emily Peck, and Catherine Rampell. 

Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder.


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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:14.2

Hello, welcome to the Where's My Tax Cut edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

0:25.1

I'm Felix Salmon and I have the most amazing podcast team here this week.

0:32.3

We have not only Anna Shamansky.

0:34.1

Hello.

0:34.8

Not only Amley Peck from Huffington Post, but also Catherine Rampel.

0:40.5

Hi, Felix.

0:41.2

Welcome.

0:42.1

Thank you.

0:42.9

You write for the Washington Post about matters economic.

0:48.7

And so we're going to talk to you about matters economics.

0:51.4

And it's like, you know, in the absence of Jordan Weissman, we have no one who knows anything about economics here anymore. But we are going to

0:57.8

talk about what has happened to the country since these tax cuts went through. We are going to talk

1:05.1

about the unemployment rate, as promised last week, we came out with this little factoid that there's

1:12.9

1.0 empty jobs per unemployed person, which is like an amazing thing. We'll dive into that a bit.

1:23.4

And because it's my podcast and I get to do what I want, I'm going to talk, we are going to talk a little bit about my project that I've been working on for a few months and just came out on Slate called the Slate 90.

1:35.3

It's all about the nonprofit sector and we will find something interesting to say about that.

1:39.3

But first, Catherine, the tax cuts.

1:43.8

This was the number one biggest thing that Gary Cohn and the sort of Republican donor class wanted to do.

1:54.0

And they did it and they were celebrating.

1:56.9

And now they get more money.

1:59.9

I mean, has this? Yeah, in short. So they got what they get more money. I mean, has this?

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