Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where we unpacked the numbers and the new ones behind the headlines.

This is our Monday show, Your Kickoff Primer to the Week, or Primer, if you want to be fancy.

Regardless, it is November 15, 2021.

My name is Alex and the holiday season is just around the corner.

Yes, if you miss that, it did creep up on all of us because, well, it's been March

20 for so long now. It's hard to know where we are in any

particular calendar year. Still if you are tired if you are exhausted if you are

hoping that things will slow down as we approach the end of 2021 well you might be getting what you want, as we'll see in just a minute.

But before we do that, let's talk about the markets.

So looking over in China, retail sales were up more than expected, so of course stocks there are down in Japan GDP

decline was bigger than expected so of course stocks are up and in the US stocks

are set to rise this morning in pre-market trading at least that's the data we

have despite inflation and growth concerns here domestically.

In the world of crypto, if that's more your jam than traditional equities, well things are calm in the last 24 hours,

and if you look back a full seven days, a great many major coins were effectively flat over the last week.

So what I'm trying to tell you is this morning stocks are actually more interesting than crypto.

Ah, 2021, a never-ending font of surprise.

All right, on to our big technology news section this morning.

We are going to kick off with Tesla.

Tesla's still worth more than one trillion

dollars and I bring that up because its shares have fallen since Elon Musk

it's, I don't know, CEO and Bon Vivant Twitter troll, executed a number of of high profile sales of his stock.

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