Slate Money

Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski talk about Tesla’s $1.5 million Bitcoin investment, the recent growth of fast fashion and Bumble’s IPO. In the Slate Plus segment: Birkinstocks. (Not to be confused with Birkenstocks.)  ‘Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World’ by Rachel Monroe for the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/ultra-fast-fashion-is-eating-the-world/617794/ Email: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lionel Barber, former editor of the Financial Times, joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to discuss his book The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times, the “devil's bargain” involved with being a journalist who has direct access to some of the most powerful people in the world, and what it’s like to run a newspaper like the Financial Times. In the Slate Plus segment: Nick Clegg.Email: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You asked for it! Slate Money devotes the whole episode to explaining the crazy GameStop story that has taken over everything this week. Hope King (formerly of Cheddar, CNN, Business Insider) joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to help untangle the situation.  In the Slate Plus segment: What does AMC have to do with all of this?Email: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ron Lieber of The New York Times joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to talk about his book The Price You Pay for College on the economics of higher education, and how to work within the (terrible) system to get the COVID-19 vaccine. In the Slate Plus segment: Pardons. Email: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cathy O‘Neil returns to Slate Money to talk with Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski about Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic package, social media platforms banning Trump, and hackers attacking Parler...and male chastity belts. In the Slate Plus segment: The near future of COVID.Email: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Slate Money talks about the insurrection at the Capitol, those $2,000 stimulus checks, and Roblox’s plan to go public through a direct listing. In the Slate Plus segment: The Google union. ‘Trump’s $2,000 Stimulus Checks Are a Big Mistake’ By Lawrence H. Summers for BloombergEmail: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter:Felix Salmon on Twitter / https://twitter.com/felixsalmonEmily Peck on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilyRPeckAnna Szymanski on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Three_Guineas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob Goldstein of Planet Money joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to talk about his book Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing and explain the varied history of this thing we call “money”.In the Slate Plus segment: A deeper dive into Jacob’s wonky Numbers Round number. Email: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zach Carter joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski to talk about his book The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes and discuss the life and philosophy of the man whose ideas built the foundation for modern economics. In the Slate Plus segment: Best books of 2020. Email: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies. In this special holiday preview episode, Felix and Anna are joined by Yinka Adegoke, the Africa editor for Quartz, to discuss the classic Christmas/commodities-trading comedy Trading Places. They talk about the rampant 1980s-ness of it all, what is actually happening with the frozen concentrated orange juice, and how the film stacks up as a finance movie overall. Email: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski discuss Massachusetts regulators’ complaint against the Robinhood app, how MacKenzie Scott is giving away billions, and all the One Percenters leaving big cities.In the Slate Plus segment: Currency manipulation. Email: slatemoney@slate.comPodcast production by Jessamine Molli.Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices