Hello!

Welcome to the ABC edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

We have so much material to deal with this week. We are going to talk about

ABC. XYZ, aka alphabet, aka Google. We are going to talk about Uber. We are going to talk

about Google. We are going to talk about Uber. We are going to talk about Manchester City Football Club.

We, by the way, is me, Felix Salmon of Axios, and Emily Peck of Huffpost, and Anna Shimanski of Breaking Views, and we are going to talk

about not only all of these things but also in a lively slate plus discussion poor Argentina being picked on by Donald

Trump and what it has to do with the price of soybeans which I promise is more interesting than it sounds especially if you manage to make it through the

Lively numbers round where we will talk about the greatest TV ad that has appeared on Twitter in the past three weeks.

It's all coming up on slate money.

Now I know my ABC's the official

you are all if you want to find alphabet on the internet is ABC.

That's where their blog is. Or it's also at Google dot blog. But Google dot blog is just for Google.

ABC. YZ is for the parent company, which is alphabet, because they're all quirky and they put

out letters from Larry and Sergei who are always referred to by their first names

and were all on first-name terms with Larry and Sergei. The boys as they're now, even though they're 46.

Exactly. The boys who needed adult supervision. Do you remember that?

Yes. And the boys put out this cute little email with two exclamation points at the end of paragraphs because that's how like, you know,

relatable they are saying, hey, we don't really need to run this place anymore.

We can just let Sundar take over. isn't it all just like friendly and we aren't running

you know trillion dollar global mega behemoth company that basically controls everything that you do in every

aspect of your life.

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