Slate Money

Felix Salmon and Anna Szymanski are joined by Jim Tankersley of the New York Times to discuss his book The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class, TikTok, and the digital future of media. 

And in the Plus segment: The economy in the Trump era.

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski are joined by Felix’s cousin Thomas Harding to discuss his book, Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World , on the unusual financial history of the Salmon family, generational wealth, and financial inequality.

And in the Plus segment: More with Thomas Harding.

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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Emerging markets experts Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati join Felix Salmon and Anna Szymanski to discuss how emerging markets are faring in the COVID-19 crisis, the Argentine debt default, and Pac-Man. 

And in the Plus segment: Lee’s crisis sovereign-debt-relief plan. 

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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This week, Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski went live on Facebook with Margaret Sullivan to discuss her book Ghosting the News and take listener questions about the local news crisis.

In the Plus Segment: More with Margaret Sullivan.

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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This week, Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski discuss the Robinhood app that’s gamifying the stock market, Quibi’s big failure, and the rising number of food insecure children in the US. 

In the Slate Plus segment: PPP shaming. 

Slate Money Live 7/15 at 7pm: https://slate.com/live/wednesday-night-live-with-slate-money.html

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck

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This week, Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski discuss the advertising boycott of Facebook, environmental, social, and governance investing, and the implications of the latest jobs report. 

In the Slate Plus segment: Netflix.

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck

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This week, Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski discuss the reopening and reclosing of states amid COVID-19 spikes, visas and immigration in the United States, and the messy collapse of the German fintech company Wirecard. 

In the Slate Plus segment: Bill Ackman and SPACs.

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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Professor Stephanie Kelton joins Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski for a long awaited episode on Modern Monetary Theory. She answers their many questions about MMT and discusses her book The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy.

In the Slate Plus segment: How we feel about the stock market. 

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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Cathy O’Neil is back! She joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to explain why COVID-19 models are confusing, talk about the media world’s big reckoning with its own racism, and discuss the Ford Foundation’s new bonds plan. 

In the Slate Plus segment: A tech startup that’s trying to detect women’s orgasm. 

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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This week, Stacy-Marie Ishmael, the editorial director of the Texas Tribune, joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski to talk about the May jobs report, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the economic history of African Americans, and what reparations might look like.

In the Slate Plus segment: A longer conversation on corporate donations. 

“Kicked Off the Land,” by Lizzie Presser for The New Yorker

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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