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Planet Money In Book Form!

Alex Mayyasi gives us a peek into the new book from the team at Planet Money and talks Argentinian Blackberries, market design, credit card fees and more.

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Episode Notes

This week: Beloved NPR podcast Planet Money is now a book too! Author and Planet Money contributor Alex Mayyasi joins Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck to give us a peek into the upcoming Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life. Pulling from their favorite chapters of the book, the hosts get into how Argentina’s attempt to foster manufacturing mirrors Trump’s recent efforts, why the Argentinian Blackberry just didn’t cut it, the hidden forces of market design, the reverse-robin hood effect of high credit card fees and more.

In the Slate Plus episode: Childcare and Baumol’s cost disease

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth.

Bonus Episode

Bonus: Childcare and Baumol’s Cost Disease

Alex Mayyasi breaks down the economic conundrum of childcare.

About the Show

A weekly roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of business and finance, hosted by Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers.

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  • Emily Peck is the co-host of Slate Money and a markets correspondent for Axios.

  • Felix Salmon is a host of the Slate Money podcast.

  • Elizabeth Spiers is Slate’s Pay Dirt columnist. She was the founding editor of Gawker and the former editor in chief of the New York Observer. Prior to Gawker, she was a financial analyst.