Where’s My Check?
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Slate Podcasts
4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Washington is still struggling to put the U.S. economy on ice while we wait out the coronavirus. Maybe you’re expecting your government check this week. Maybe you’re a small business owner looking for a loan. Is help on the way? And, if not, what’s the hold-up?
Guest: Jordan Weissmann, Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Henry Garbar here, filling in for Mary Harris. |
| 0:03.3 | Just wanted to give a heads up to the people listening with kids nearby. |
| 0:06.7 | This episode contains a few swear words. |
| 0:09.7 | If you haven't left the house in four weeks, your kids may have heard worse, but I wanted to warn you anyway. |
| 0:18.7 | Henry, just so you know, also, I'm in a little bit of a dower mood because I was trying my hand at making an olive bull. |
| 0:25.2 | This is my colleague, Jordan Weissman. |
| 0:27.5 | And the recipe is just like, just add the calamata olives in and into the stand mixer with the dough and it'll mix. |
| 0:34.7 | And obviously didn't because the calamata olives are very oily. And so it just like... Jordan covers business and it'll mix. And obviously didn't because the Kalamata olives are very oily. |
| 0:38.1 | And so it just like... |
| 0:39.2 | Jordan covers business and economics for slate. |
| 0:42.1 | Before we all were treated to our closets, |
| 0:44.5 | Jordan and I used to sit next to each other in New York, |
| 0:47.0 | but we'd compare notes on a hobby we shared, baking. |
| 0:51.0 | So it was a whole ordeal. |
| 0:53.2 | Well, this is just more evidence that ham needing can get the job done. |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah, I think so. There's a reason Jordan and I are spending so much time swapping bread stories right now. |
| 1:05.8 | And it's because for so many of us, there is so little else to do. We're either cooking, planning to cook, or posting about what we cooked. |
| 1:14.5 | And by we, I mean, America. |
| 1:16.3 | There's not a lot of economic activity going on at the moment. |
| 1:23.1 | I want to take you back to the last time you were on, what next? |
| 1:27.9 | You were talking with Mary. |
| 1:29.5 | I was in a state of despair. |
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