Hello! Welcome to the Jeff Bezos' midlife crisis edition of Slate Money,

or Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week

in which Jeff B dropped $165 million on a pierater in Los Angeles and what

else happened?

Oh, there's a major Fed Chair Ruhaha going on in Washington.

We're going to talk about that.

We're going to talk about antitrust issues,

not only as pertaining to telecoms but also as pertaining to technology we're going to

talk about Jedi. If you don't know what Jedi is you're about to find out but it

also involves big tech and the power thereof and

if you are a Slate Plus member can I just say you're in for a treat this week because

there is a truly magnificent Emily Peck rant.

So all I have to do now is just introduce ourselves.

My name is Felix Amine of Axios.

Emily Peck you are here from Huffpost.

Hello?

Alan Shimansky, you are here from Breaking Views.

Hello.

And we are going to be talking about manner of techno-aw awesome things.

Coming up on slate money.

So let's talk about the hearing that happened on Thursday

in the Senate in front of the banking committee, pretty much 50-50

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