{"podcast":{"title":"Slate Money","slug":"slate-money-319188","podcast_index_feed_id":319188,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/695ead68a32e86d775858194","website_url":"https://slate.com/podcasts/slate-money","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/695ead68a32e86d775858194/show-cover.jpg","author":"Slate Podcasts","episode_count":819,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T06:20:00.486969+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-money-319188"},"episode":{"title":"We Hate the Inflation","slug":"we-hate-the-inflation","published_at":"2026-06-13T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-money-319188/we-hate-the-inflation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-money-319188","url":"https://shows.acast.com/slate-money/episodes/6a2c29f0252d86e8463d9a3e","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/695ead68a32e86d775858194/e/6a2c29f0252d86e8463d9a3e/media.mp3","summary":"This week: Inflation hit its highest rate in three years thanks to skyrocketing energy prices. Felix Salmon , Elizabeth Spiers , and Emily Peck , parse through what the various inflation numbers mean and discuss the Fed’s and Donald Trump’s blasé reaction to the situation. Then, with the trustees warning of its depletion by 2032, the hosts talk about the possible consequences of losing Social Security. And finally, they look at the natural experiment that revealed the unexpected connection between the iPhone and lower birth rates.  In the Slate Plus episode: Is Anthropic vs OpenAI the new Coke vs Pepsi? Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify . Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"This week: Inflation hit its highest rate in three years thanks to skyrocketing energy prices. Felix Salmon , Elizabeth Spiers , and Emily Peck , parse th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2454,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/slate-money-319188/episodes/we-hate-the-inflation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/slate-money-319188/we-hate-the-inflation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}