Them's The Breaks
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🗓️ 9 July 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss this week’s good jobs report versus the bad economic vibes, Boris Johnson’s ousting as Prime Minister, and the stark decline in the quality of air travel.
In the Plus segment: What are the odds that two former FBI directors would be audited?
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, you guys. I thought I would never have to talk about Elon Musk again, but today after |
| 0:04.9 | he finished taping the show, Elon filed with the SEC that he wants to back out of his $44 |
| 0:11.9 | billion agreement to buy Twitter, setting up kind of a phase two in this whole saga. |
| 0:17.2 | We taped too early in the day on Friday to get to this news, but you can be sure we'll be back |
| 0:22.3 | to you next week with more all about it. Okay, on to the show. |
| 0:37.1 | Hello and welcome to the Thames, the Breaks episode of Sleet Money, or guide to the business |
| 0:45.2 | and finance news of quite a tumultuous week. I'm Felix Amniv Axios, I'm here with Emily Peck, |
| 0:51.5 | also of Axios. Hi. We're here with Elizabeth Spires. Hello. And we are, well, you two are just looking |
| 1:00.4 | at Boris Johnson and rolling your eyes and going, ha ha, because you don't have like, you know, |
| 1:07.6 | you don't come from that benighted island. Some of us do. Anyway, yeah, the UK is falling apart. |
| 1:13.8 | Again, the Prime Minister has resigned. We're going to talk about what happened there. We're going |
| 1:17.9 | to talk about the jobs numbers that came out this morning, whether we're in a recession, the vibes. |
| 1:22.4 | We're going to talk about air travel. We are going to wind up in a weird digression somewhere |
| 1:28.4 | in the numbers round about our authentication, because why not? We're going to have a slate plus |
| 1:34.0 | about probabilistic analysis, which is much more interesting than it sounds. It's all coming up on |
| 1:39.5 | Slate Money. |
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| 2:40.2 | Okay, let's talk about the jobs report, because we had... What was it? 375,000, some massive |
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