Hello.

Welcome to the literally making money edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. My name is Felix Salmon.

I am the chief financial correspondent at Axios. I am here with Emily Peck, who has some

equally grand title at the Huffington Post. Senior reporter. There you go. I think a chief

in there, though. That's good. You should get a chief. And we are here with Chief Anna Shamansky. Yes.

It's an honorific with her. We just call her chief. We are going to talk about upzoning today.

We're going to talk about why Americans seem to be so resistant to optimizing the use of the land upon which they live.

We are going to talk about beyond meat and various other IPOs which are doing really well and ask ourselves,

what makes Beyond Meat so special and so appealing?

Pea Protein.

This was also a reference to a certain piece of English pop art, which we will reference in the Slate Plus, which is all

going to be about Sothebiz, which was originally an English company. But most of all, the thing

which we are going to be diving into is Libra, which is this brand new cryptocurrency

announced by Facebook and various other members of a

consortium. And they want us all to be buying and selling and spending Libra. Are we going to be

doing this? No. No, says Emily. All of that. Coming up on Slate Money. Okay, I'm super

excited to talk about Libra. Really? Yeah, I am because it's the first

time that someone has launched a cryptocurrency and people have taken it seriously from day one.

You know, Ethereum, it took like a few months for people to start taking it seriously. And even

then, people don't take it that seriously. Bitcoin took years. Lever barely even exists yet. I mean,

it only exists as a white paper and people are already all over it and a bunch of super big name

financial institutions have signed up with it. And it looks like with a pretty high degree of

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