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Having Children is Hard

Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael talk about the disappointing jobs report and how it relates to falling birth rates, the Bill and Melinda Gates divorce news and Trump’s Facebook ban.

In the Plus segment: The Peloton treadmill recall. 

Mentioned in the show:

“The Great Birth Rate Freak-Out” by Jill Filipovic
MIT Media Lab director resigns over financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein” by Felix Salmon for Axios
“How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein” by Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker

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Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i 
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A weekly roundup of the most important stories from the worlds of business and finance, hosted by Felix Salmon.

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