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 Salmon of Axios.

I'm here with Anna Shemansky 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

SPACs 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.

So, Anna, you have spent many years, like I have,

reading headlines from Latin America about chaos in state legislatures and

mobs overrunning and disputed elections and disputed presidencies and various different people claiming

to be the legitimate winner of the election. And how does it feel for all of that to be happening

in your home country?

Well, on the one hand, it's shocking.

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