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Bonus: Treasury Market Rom-Com

The U.S. market is the boyfriend at the beginning of a Hallmark movie.

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Episode Notes

Economist Martha Gimbel recently compared the U.S. bond market to “the boyfriend at the beginning of the Hallmark movie.” Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck take the budget watchdog’s metaphor and run with it.

Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

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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.