What Do You Pay the Man Who Has Everything?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week: Tesla offered Elon Musk an incentive package worth a trillion dollars. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss Tesla's motivation and why Musk, already the richest man in the world, would be tempted by the outrageous number. Then, the big antitrust case against Google went out with a whimper, with the Judge ruling that they are a monopoly but they don’t need to break up the company if they follow a few new rules. The hosts discuss the logic behind the decision and what the ruling might signal to other companies. And finally, with the prospect of Trump’s tariffs being ruled illegal by the Supreme Court, traders are buying up tariff refund rights. So, Felix gets to nerd out about litigation finance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week. |
| 0:18.4 | My name is Felix Hammond. I'm at Bloomberg. I am joined this week as ever by |
| 0:25.0 | Emily Peck of Axios. Hello, hello. And Elizabeth Spires of New York Times. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello. And we are being featured in Apple Podcasts, Learn Something New Collection. |
| 0:38.0 | So if you found us through Learn Something New, welcome. |
| 0:41.4 | We're very glad that you're here. |
| 0:43.4 | Every week on Slate Money, we basically pick three of the biggest stories in business, finance, and economics. |
| 0:49.8 | And we explain what they mean. |
| 0:51.6 | And we unpack the news behind the news, and we sometimes nerd out. |
| 0:55.7 | This week we're going to nerd out on litigation finance, but we're also going to talk about |
| 0:59.5 | Elon Musk's pay package. |
| 1:01.1 | We're going to talk about antitrust and alphabet and Google and chat GPT. |
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| 1:19.5 | members-only bonus episodes of Slate Money. This week, we have a whole bonus episode all about |
| 1:24.8 | renewable energy and wind power and the fight between the Trump |
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