Hello and welcome to the Checks and Roblox episode of Slate Money, Your Guide to the Business

and Finance Angles of one of the craziest news weeks that I can remember. I'm Felix

Simon of Axios. I'm here with Anna Shimanski of Breaking Views.

Hello. I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost.

Hi.

We of course are going to talk about the crazy that happened this week, the storming of the

capital and what the implications are for the stability of the

United States as an economic power. We are going to talk about the Georgia election

results which kind of got knocked into second place but are huge

in terms of what it means the Senate might be able to pass in terms of legislation.

We are going to talk about specs and IPOs and companies going public and what's happening there.

We are going to make sure that Emily explains to us what Roblox is in case you don't know.

We also have a Slate Plus segment on the Google Union.

It's all coming up on Slate Money.

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So Anna, you have spent many years like I have reading headlines from Latin America about

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