Slate Money - We Need to Talk About Kevin (Warsh)
This week: Kevin Warsh took over as Federal Reserve Chair, while Jerome Powell will remain on the board. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, discuss how the Donald Trump appointee will dea...
16 Mai 43min
Political Gabfest - Gabfest Reads | Why Liberalism Needs to Reclaim the Center
In this month’s episode of Gabfest Reads, John Dickerson interviews Bloomberg columnist Adrian Wooldridge about his new book The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism. In a moment when A...
16 Mai 47min
What Next - SchadenFriday: Ben Shapiro’s Short—as in Abrupt—Decline
Once a rising star of the New Right via New Media, Ben Shapiro and his Daily Wire have spent the second Trump administration in precipitous decline. Is it simply a case of bad business decisions runni...
15 Mai 5min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Trump Visits the First World
Between artificial intelligence, the Iran War, and the future of Taiwan, there’s a lot for the United States and China to hash out—not least of which being the pecking order.Guest: Josh Chin, senior g...
15 Mai 22min
Political Gabfest - Nevertheless, Xi Persisted
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the geopolitical dynamics and possible outcomes of the Trump-Xi summit with former New York Times Beijing Bureau Chief and host of Fa...
14 Mai 56min
What Next - How "Tax the Rich" Went Mainstream
As wealth disparity continues to grow, politicians in New York and California have suggested raising revenue through taxes that are aimed at their wealthiest residents. But the rich didn’t get that wa...
14 Mai 25min
What Next - The Case for Fighting Dirty
A redrawn Virginia electoral map looked like it could offset at least some red state gerrymandering—until the Virginia Supreme Court stepped in. But if Democrats—in the commonwealth or elsewhere—have ...
13 Mai 25min
Slate Money - Money Talks: Risk-Maxxing
In this Money Talks: Felix Salmon is joined by futurist Scott Smith who breaks down his theory of “risk-maxxing” and why it’s on the rise in economics, politics, and other spheres at this particular m...
12 Mai 37min
