Hello!

Welcome to the But the Gift Cards edition of Slate Money,

Your Guide to the Business and Finance

News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axio, so I'm joined by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

Hello. Who has gift cards in her wallet and she doesn't want them to go worthless when the company goes bust.

I do have a gift card in my wallet actually. worthless when the company goes bust.

I do have a gift card in my wallet actually.

We are also joined by Anna Shimanski who is a meany who hates gift cards and thinks they

should go back. Down with the gift cards.

We are going to have a jolly R.G.

debate about not really about gift cards,

although they do enter into it,

but about private equity, is it good, is it bad,

should it be regulated, if it should be regulated,

how should it be regulated?

And of course, in general, about Elizabeth Warren,

who is, you know, she has a plan for that you will be surprised to hear we're going to talk about her plan

We are also going to talk about Netflix and whether it's business model makes any sense and we are going to talk about

gentrification and whether it maybe isn't as bad as people think it is.

Are you going to tease cats? Oh we are also going to have an amazing

slate plus segment you should probably subscribe to slate plus just to listen to

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