Hello, and welcome to the giant money gun edition of Slate Money, your guide to the

Business and Finance News of, yes, another crazy week.

I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I'm here with Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views.

Hello. I'm here with Emily Pack of Huffpost. Hello. And we have a great show this week.

We're going to talk about stimulus payments. We're going to talk about PPP payments. We're going to talk about Amazon and how evil it is. We're going to talk

about dividends. We're going to talk in Slate Plus about the IMF and the World Bank and what they

are or are not doing to help the poorest countries in the world. It's a jam-packed show,

and it's all coming up on Slate Money.

Okay, so I'm going to start with a weird kind of guessing game numbers round.

Anna, Emily, what proportion of Slate Money's listeners do you think received a stimulus payment in their bank accounts this week?

That's just such a good question.

I think it's a very small percentage.

I would reckon it's 10%.

I think it'd be more than that.

I think it'll be more than that.

I'm going to go on the assumption that probably 80% of our listeners are in the US and the overwhelming

majority of them are taxpayers and probably they're banked.

They have bank accounts.

So they just tell the IRS what their bank account number is.

So it's not like they're going to have to wait for

a physical check. So at that point, the only reason why you shouldn't get a check is basically

if you earned too much money in 2018 or if you're some weird, if you're like married to an

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