Hello! Hello, welcome to the R-SPX Scams episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance

news of a week in which one of the biggest specs of all time was announced.

We'll see whether that one actually happens or not, whether Bill Ackman manages to buy

Universal Music Group for $40 billion. I am Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael.

Hello. I'm here with Emily Peck.

Hello. And we are going to talk about specs

and whether or not they're scams.

I'm not sure they're scams.

I'm pretty sure that maybe one or two of them are scams,

but possibly not all of them.

We are going to talk about AMC, which is the hot

meme stock of the minute. We are going to talk about commuting and the return to work and whether there's any chance of being able to fix the system that was broken before and it was broken for the pandemic and will almost certainly realistically remain broken after.

But it will be broken in new ways and we'll get to talk about all of the new and interesting ways

in which it's broken.

We have a Slate Plus about the Jobs Report that came out this week, and what it says about the difficulty

of hiring people right now and about halfway

through we even get to talk to Charles Dohe, he has an amazing piece in the New Yorker

this week and is also the host of a slate podcast or was? He was the host of season one and he still works on this

amazing slate podcast called How To. It's like dear prudence plus more experts and you hear firsthand people's stories and problems and it's

really fascinating it's hard to not listen once you get into it.

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