Will The UPS Union Deal Deliver?
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4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers talk about the tentative agreement between UPS and their unionized workers. They discuss how Goldman Sachs’ Apple credit card went bad, and a new study reveals how household income influences Ivy League admission rates.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:23.5 | Here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and elsewhere. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello. |
| 0:29.0 | Elizabeth Spires has recently done the Barbieheimer thing. |
| 0:33.6 | She saw both movies on one day. |
| 0:35.5 | She's going to tell us about that in the numbers round. But before we get to the numbers round, we have a full, awesome, brilliant show. We're going to talk about the UPS strike, which was averted, the deal that was done between UPS and its workers. We are going to talk about Goldman Sachs and its misadventures in consumer finance. That's a fun one. |
| 0:55.2 | We are going to talk about college admissions and why they seem to favour the 1%. It's all coming up |
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