Podcast Episodes

Slate Money | Money Talks: Chicken and a Cold Drink

In this Money Talks: The Wall Street Journal’s Heather Haddon joins Emily Peck to unpack her recent reporting on the fast food industry, including the reason we’re seeing the “Value Wars” play out at…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

The Surveillance Interstate

Tracking a license plate across the country has never been easier, which is good news if your car has been stolen, but in an era of ICE and Border Patrol raids, these warrantless searches feel increa…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Slate Money | Good Riddance to Larry Summers

This week: Larry Summers has stepped down from his public positions following the release of unsavory emails he exchanged with Jeffrey Epstein. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss …

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

ICYMI | AI Is Changing How We Have Sex

On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by porn historian Noelle Perdue, author of the Porn World newsletter. OpenAI announced that they’d allow adult users to have erotic conversations with C…

Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago

What Next: TBD | Crypto Keeps Criming

Trump promised to stop the “persecution” of the cryptocurrency industry. He did call off the SEC investigations that began under Biden, and pardoned Binance cofounder and ex-CEO Changpeng Zhao. But i…

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

How Meta Profits Off Fraud

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Meta, doesn’t (just) have a scam problem—with 10 percent of its revenue coming from scam ads, and a third of all successful scams in America using a Meta…

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Slate Money | The Correct Opinion on 50-Year Mortgages

This week: FHFA director Bill Pulte convinced Trump to back 50-year mortgages with some posterboard and a photo of FDR.  Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, discuss why Trump’s post about…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

What Next: TBD | Data Centers on the Ballot

They don’t cut cleanly along party lines, but data centers, and where they get built, became an election issue in Virginia. With so many more data centers to build, are we looking at a new trend? 

Gu…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

ICYMI | Who TF Is Grammy-Nominated Alex Warren?

On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by Yahoo News senior entertainment writer, Kelsey Weekman, to answer the question on everyone’s lips: Who is Alex Warren and why is every store playing …

Published on 4 weeks ago

Slate Money | Money Talks: Beyond The Pink Tax

In this Money Talks: Elizabeth Spiers is joined by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, to discuss her book The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid. They discuss Anna’s extensive resear…

Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago