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🗓️ 29 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week: A leaked Signal message revealed illegal use of the commercial app by the Defense Department. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers explain how this is a common issue in finance, where employees often defy SEC regulations on secure communication in favor of more convenient ways of communicating. Then, a recent study shows that people are leaving states with anti-abortion laws and other evidence suggests political migration in the US is on the rise. Finally, Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar to private equity for $1 billion, 10 years after buying it for $8 billion. The hosts discuss what might have led to the end of the disastrous merger. In the Slate Plus episode: Felix joins What Next host Mary Harris to talk about the godfather of crypto, Satoshi Nakamoto. 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 and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:17.4	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:20.6	Hello, hello.
0:21.3	With Elizabeth Spires of It's Not Pamplemoose.
0:24.6	What is it? I keep on forgetting.
0:25.9	Passion fruit.
0:26.6	Passion fruit.
0:27.6	In New York Times and all manner of places.
0:30.0	We are going to talk about how people just insist on using normal messaging apps,
0:36.7	a message and signal and things like that, rather
0:40.3	than the difficult to use ones. And this isn't just a problem at the top levels of government.
0:45.3	This is a problem throughout Wall Street. We are going to talk about migration and what various
0:50.3	Trump administration and US government policies are doing to how people are moving.
0:54.7	We are going to talk about dollar general, dollar tree, family dollar, all of these stores.
1:00.1	They get confusing.
1:01.3	We have Shana Rothback for Egg Watch because there's big egg news.
1:05.3	There's a Slate Plus all about Satoshi Nakamoto.
1:08.0	And it's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:12.1	So, you want to be a marketer. It's easy. You just have to score a ton of leads and figure
1:18.0	out a way to turn them all into customers. Plus manage a dozen channels, write a million
1:21.9	blogs and launch 100 campaigns all at once. When that's done, simply make your socials go viral
1:26.9	and bring in record profits.
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