Hello and welcome to the Banana Disruptions Edition of Slate Money,

your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

Emily Peck is here from Huff Post.

Hello. And the Shimansky is here from Breaking Views. Hello. We have been

disrupted. Well we tried to do our little disrupting thing by doing a

COVID special 15 minute show on Wednesdays but we've been disrupted by the

ad market so no more COVID shows on Wednesdays. We're going to talk a little bit about why that is in Slate Plus.

We are going to talk about disruption to supply chains, just in bananas but also much more

importantly in toilet paper that's coming up on this show we are going to talk about

the oil market and Trump tweets but I think we are going to start with the

massive stimulus bill and the small business money that is not going out to small businesses nearly as

efficiently as people had hoped that it would. All of that coming up on slate

money. So let's start with what is for me the centerpiece of the two trillion dollar stimulus package,

which is the 350 billion dollars that is going to small businesses, much if not most of which is going to wind up

going straight to those small businesses in the form of loan forgiveness.

You're a small business, you apply for a loan,

you can get two and a half months of payroll and rent and utilities, and then as long as you keep

those staff members on payroll, you can get that loan forgiven. So this is not a fed

liquidity thing this isn't a low interest loan thing this is basically a grant

dressed up as a loan and it's super important for keeping millions of small

businesses in business. And Emily, how's that going? Yeah, it's not going great

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