This week: We’re celebrating a year full of hot takes! <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zxqezqfhjwidbrsvk66ded57">Felix Salmon</a>, <a href="https://www.elizabethspiers.com/">Elizabeth Spiers</a>, and <a href="https://www.axios.com/authors/epeck">Emily Peck</a>, debate and rate the hottest takes they’ve heard this year — like Elon Musk’s claim that there will be <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2001361571407368589?s=20">no poverty in the future</a>, the idea that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/opinion/tariffs-economy-inflation-recession.html">Trump’s tariffs didn’t matter</a> – and the collection of fire takes Felix gathered from around the Bloomberg news room. 
In the Slate Plus episode: The hot take that started it all: the $140,000 poverty line.
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