What the Heck is Going on in Japan?
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon is joined by guest hosts Shira Ovide of the Washington Post and Anna Szymanski of Reuters to discuss Japan’s market chaos, the guilty verdict in Google’s monopoly case, and whether Boeing’s new CEO can fly the company out of a storm of troubles. In the Plus bonus episode: The hosts go to the Mountain Dew belt to discuss the state of soda and the rise of non-alcoholic beer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Felix Saman of Axios and we have the two greatest slate money guest host personalities in the history of the show, |
| 0:30.2 | joining forces for the first ever time on this show. |
| 0:35.0 | Shara Overday, welcome back. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:38.0 | You are the Tech Friend at the Washington Post? |
| 0:41.0 | Yes, I write the Tech Friend newsletter at the Washington Post Google it |
| 0:45.1 | sign up for it. It's free. We are going to talk about googling things and why that is |
| 0:50.1 | illegal kind of coming up on this show but before we get to that we need to introduce |
| 0:56.1 | of course the one and only Anna Schmansky of Reuters welcome back hello hello good to be back again. |
| 1:03.0 | So soon. |
| 1:04.0 | So soon. |
| 1:05.0 | Last week you were here talking about Japanese stonk craziness. |
| 1:08.0 | So this week you're going to come on and talk about Japanese stonk craziness. |
| 1:13.0 | Slightly more Japanese stock craziness, yes. |
| 1:15.5 | We're going to talk about what caused it |
| 1:17.7 | and whether Central Banks should be paying attention |
| 1:20.5 | and where the companies should be paying attention. |
| 1:23.0 | We're also going to talk about the Google thing. |
| 1:25.0 | We're also going to talk about the Boeing thing. |
| 1:28.0 | It's a really fun show with awesome people, so stay tuned for more slate money. Can we'll come rounds can we have Tykawai? |
| 1:44.0 | Your makeup. We need speakers |
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