Trouble in the House of Mouse
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers talk about Disney’s challenges especially now that writers and actors are both on strike. They discuss the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on student loans. And finally, what to do if your bank suddenly closes your account.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the |
| 0:20.6 | week. I'm Felix Ammon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and elsewhere. |
| 0:30.3 | Hello. And we have an awesome show. We are going to talk about Disney and |
| 0:37.2 | streaming and strikes and Bob Iga and we are going to talk about student loans which you're going to have to start paying back your student loans again. |
| 0:46.0 | Is this a good thing? Is this a bad thing? Should you have had to start paying them back much earlier? |
| 0:51.0 | Did we wait too long? We're going to talk about suspicious activity reports |
| 0:56.4 | and banks just closing people's bank accounts out of the blue. We have a slate plus segment which is turning into an Axios Commissioning |
| 1:06.0 | segment where we talk about candy-colored cruise ships. It's a fun one so |
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| 1:47.2 | So let's start with how everything is going a little bit pear shaped in the entertainment industry in general and at Disney in particular. |
| 1:59.0 | Disney is a big producer of film and TV and now it has not only all of the writers on strike |
| 2:06.9 | but also all of the actors on strike and I'm going to come out here with a highly insightful insight here, which is that it's really |
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