Hello and welcome to the Iberian siesta episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Hammond of

Axios. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost. Hello. Formerly the Huffington

post, which was run by the sleep expert, Ariana Huffington. I'm joined by Anna Shamansky.

Hello. Do you get enough sleep? Not usually. Not usually. You see, I'm beginning to put a theme together here.

I'm going to talk about how I'm all jet lagged because I just got back from Portugal.

I'm going to tell you a little bit about what I got up to in Portugal and somehow segue that into a piece about private markets.

We are going to talk about the CEO of McDonald's, who had an affair

with the subordinate and wound up losing his job as a result and various other people in similar

situations. And yes, we are going to talk about Iberian siesters. We're going to talk about

sleepy time. And we're going to talk about whether naps make you

richer. I think this would be the best world, really, is a world where, like, people get rich by

napping. That's a dream world. Literally. Literally. We are also going to have a plus segment

about Saudi Aramco.

So all of that is coming up in Slate Money.

Let's start with people losing their job for having consensual sex.

Yes.

This is the new thing.

This is the hot new thing.

Most recently it's the CEO of McDonald's. Yes, this week. McDonald's said that Stephen Easterbrook was going to step down because he had had a consensual. They emphasized consensual relationship with an employee at the company and that violated McDonald's policies. So he was out. This is despite Easterbrook presiding over a big increase in

McDonald's stock price over the past five years, I think. And this was, we saw something

similar at Intel, a few, like a year ago? Yeah, I believe it was a year ago, and you'll have to

help me pronounce his name. Cusanich. Sure. Brian Cusanich from Intel also stepped down because he had a consensual relationship with an employee.

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