Felix Salmon and a rotating panel unpack tariffs, private credit, crypto, and Wall Street deals weekly.
Slate Money is a brisk panel conversation about the week's business and finance stories. It moves from tariffs and bonds to media deals, software stocks, black markets, retirement policy, and the finance logic inside television.
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Slate Money runs two interlocking formats: a recurring multi-host panel that reacts to the week's business and finance news, and a 'Money Talks' strand built around one-on-one or small-group interviews with authors and industry insiders. Felix Salmon anchors both formats, with Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers appearing as regular co-hosts on panel episodes, debating and sometimes disagreeing on air. Guests have included Andrew Ross Sorkin discussing his book on the 1929 crash and Coinbase's chief compliance officer explaining anti-money-laundering enforcement. Recurring subject matter includes private credit, leverage, and off-balance-sheet financing; cryptocurrency, stablecoins, and prediction markets; tariffs and trade policy; and large corporate transactions and bond issuances. The show periodically steps outside pure finance to analyze how financial and business themes show up in film, television, and media culture. Segments mix explanation of financial mechanics with debate over how those mechanics play out in specific news stories. Episodes are generally 30 to 55 minutes and combine a news-roundup pace with occasional single-topic deep dives. The show suits listeners who already follow business and markets news and want journalist-driven analysis rather than basic explainers. Listeners benefit from hearing specific deals, regulatory decisions, and market structures unpacked by working financial journalists rather than by a single host's opinion alone.
Made for: Listeners who follow business and markets news and want journalist panel debate on specific deals, regulations, and financial mechanics.
What sets it apart: Pairs a multi-host news-reaction panel with a separate single-guest interview strand, and periodically applies finance analysis to media and pop culture rather than staying strictly on markets.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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