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About the Show

A weekly roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of business and finance, hosted by Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Anna Szymanski.

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Ban Facebook

Slate Money talks Snowflake, Facebook and the NVIDIA-Arm merger.

Ironic Normcore Trifles

Ben Schott joins Slate Money to talk Citigroup, workplace breeder wars, and “blands.”

Ecomagination

Slate Money on the U.S. labor market, Steve Mnuchin, and GE.

Rolling Dice

Slate Money talks monetary policy, direct listings, and Felix’s dice game.

Finders Keepers

Slate Money on the USPS, retail in the pandemic, and Citigroups’s big blunder.

Y/N/FU

Edmund Lee joins to talk about Fortnite, statistics, and Sumner Redstone.

The Riches of This Land

Jim Tankersley visits to talk about his book on America’s middle class.

The Salmon Legacy

Thomas Harding on the unusual financial history of the Salmon family.

The Bad Pac-Man

Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati return to discuss emerging markets and COVID-19.

Ghosting the News

Margaret Sullivan joins to talk about the decline of local news.

Quick Bites

Slate Money talks Robinhood, Quibi, and food insecure children.

“Good News Is Good News” Territory

Slate Money talks Facebook ads, ESG investing, and the latest jobs report.

Get a Beer and COVID-19

Slate Money talks states reopening and reclosing, visas, and Wirecard.

Modern Monetary Theory

Professor Stephanie Kelton joins Slate Money to talk Modern Monetary Theory.

Good Science/Crap Science

Cathy O’Neil is back to talk COVID-19 models, the big media reckoning and The Ford Foundation.

Systemic Interventions

Stacy-Marie Ishmael joins the hosts to talk about the May jobs report, Black Lives Matter, and reparations.

Financial Therapy

Amanda Clayman joins the hosts to answer listener questions around finance and emotion.

The Facebook Pandemic

The Slate Money hosts talk vaccines, Facebook and work from home pay.

Seamless Is a Verb

A possible Grubhub-Uber merger, the threat to day care, and some unanswered questions from a recent Facebook Live event.

Cities and the Coronavirus

Richard Florida joins Slate Money to talk about how COVID-19 behaves in urban areas.