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A weekly roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of business and finance, hosted by Felix Salmon.Want more Slate Money? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit https://slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Website ↗ Last published 31 October 2026 842 posts collected by Sputnik

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“This is the first time that I've started to almost second guess the utility of index funds, given how massive AI and the AI trade is to the stock market as a whole. And given that Anthropic and OpenAI between them are likely to be worth $4 trillion, and given that neither of them are public, and given that neither of them are going to be in the S&P 500 for quite some time, but they are going to be trading on the stock market and they are going to be driving the stock market.” — Felix Salmon, Slate Money
Felix Salmon · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“People are angry at whoever they consider to be the biggest avatar currently for billionaires, so they're not talking about the Walton family, they're talking about the loudest voices in the room. … For voters, I think the billionaires are a nebulous class and whoever is the least well behaved of the billionaires becomes the avatar for those people.” — Elizabeth Spiers, Slate Money
Elizabeth Spiers · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I'm just going to come out and say that AI and the AI space is pretty much the most competitive and least monopolistic space that I have seen in a while. There are so many different models. … To say that any of them has a monopoly in AI, the only real monopoly I can see in AI is NVIDIA. And even that one is being eroded because everyone's building their own chips now.” — Felix Salmon, Slate Money
Felix Salmon · 24 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you look at the experiments that have been done with various agentic AIs, so if you tell them to go out and buy whatever the cheapest thing is, what they often do is they kind of look at your emails and understand who you are … And invariably, if you are like a richer, more middle-class person, they wind up coming back with more expensive stuff, even if you said, find me the cheapest.” — Felix Salmon, Slate Money
Felix Salmon · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“This is my standard hobby horse when it comes to market reporting. The number one true thing that everyone can always say about the market every day is the market moved and we don't know why. … 99% of the time, there is not an obvious reason why the market moved, but everyone kind of has this human need for a simple narrative explanation.” — Felix Salmon, Slate Money
Felix Salmon · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The one thing they have in common, Republicans and Democrats, is they both hate the idea. The Democrats hate the idea because they're afraid that pensions will get affected in a bankruptcy. The Republicans hate the idea because they're afraid that bonds will get written down in a bankruptcy.” — David Skeel, Slate Money
David Skeel · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If there were price-insensitive home developers in the same way that there are price-insensitive data center developers, we would have homes everywhere.” — Felix Salmon, Slate Money
Felix Salmon · 3 Oct 2026 Listen →
“They're so focused on the avocado toaster, the coffees, when the real budget killers are your mortgage payment, your utility bill, your food, gas, stuff like that. … The other stuff is just at the edges. You're just messing around.” — Emily Peck, Slate Money
Emily Peck · 3 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think that a country like the United States, which has a 65% home ownership rate, that number is way too high. … The optimal home ownership rate is probably closer to maybe 35 or 40%.” — Felix Salmon, Slate Money
Felix Salmon · 3 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The Federal Reserve has published data that shows hedge funds now own more treasuries than China — at least officially — Japan and Saudi Arabia combined. They are the single biggest holders of treasuries now.” — Robin Wigglesworth, Slate Money
Robin Wigglesworth · 26 Sep 2026 Listen →
“I have yet to find an AI technologist who is convinced that a kill switch is something that they can just code up in a couple of weeks and implement.” — Felix Salmon, Slate Money
Felix Salmon · 19 Sep 2026 Listen →
“We have definitely reached the point in the AI bubble at which people just feel they need to get on this train at any price.” — Felix Salmon, Slate Money
Felix Salmon · 5 Sep 2026 Listen →

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Slate Money is hosted by Felix Salmon , Emily Peck , Elizabeth Spiers , Anna Szymanski , Jordan Weissmann , Cathy O'Neil , Stacy-Marie Ishmael and Julia Turner .

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