Hello, welcome to the financial therapy episode of Slate Money, your guide to the

Business and Finance News of the week. Well, really this week,

the business and finance news of our entire lives. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with

Anna Shemansky of Breaking Views. Hello. I'm also here with Emily Peck of HuffPost.

Hello.

And we have, for the whole episode, and dominating the entire episode, one of the best humans in the world, Amanda Clayman, Amanda, hello.

Hello.

And tell me who you are and tell me about your podcast.

I am a financial therapist and I have a podcast series, special series on death, sex and money called Financial Therapy with Amanda Clayman, where we are talking to some people about what is happening in their lives and

specifically in their financial lives since this whole pandemic started.

Because as I believe the technical term is, shit has got real right now.

We are going to talk a little bit about, well, a lot about our

emotional connection to money on an individual sense in terms of savings, in terms of debts,

in terms of families. We have a slate plus segment about families, which is worth becoming a Slate Plus member just

to listen to.

It's a great episode.

And thank you very much to everyone who wrote in with questions that we might be able to put

to Amanda.

We actually answer some of them on this show. And it's all

coming up on Slate Money. So let's dive into this, Amanda. We are in the craziest economic times

of our lifetime, pretty much. There's rampant unemployment, which dwarfs anything that we

saw during the financial crisis. People are weirdly saving a lot more money than they've ever

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