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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Why Trump wants to ouster his own appointee, Jerome Powell, from the Fed chair—and why the rest of the world is rooting for Powell to stay put. Guest: Liz Hoffman, Semafor’s business and finance editor, host of Semafor’s World Economy Summit, and author of Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink. Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:05.0	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:11.0	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:13.0	Daddy!
0:14.0	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.2	Now that's term time working.
0:24.6	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.9	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.9	Conditions apply.
0:33.1	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a?
0:34.6	Biting cold front.
0:35.9	Hmm, how naughty.
0:38.8	I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off.
0:41.1	The night will be wild and untamed.
0:44.6	Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin.
0:50.8	By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the afternoon.
0:53.1	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:56.0	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:58.8	Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.
1:13.2	Liz, if you were chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell right now, would you be worried about your job?
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