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Slate Money: The Debt Ceiling is Dumb

Slate Money: The Debt Ceiling is Dumb

FromSlate News


Slate Money: The Debt Ceiling is Dumb

FromSlate News

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
May 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss this big debate over the debt ceiling and why it’s so dumb, Sam Altman’s request for AI regulation, and the theory of “greedflation”. 
In the Plus segment: British accents!
 
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Patrick Fort.
 
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Released:
May 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.