Hello, welcome to the money is made up episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

A very, very special episode this week.

I am Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost.

Hello.

I'm here with Anna Schumansky of Breaking Views.

Hello.

But most excitingly, I am here with Jacob Goldstein of Planet Money.

Jacob, hi there.

Hello, everybody.

Your podcast probably needs no introduction to this crowd, but just in case it does,

tell me about your podcast.

My podcast is called Planet Money, and my book is called Money, the true story of a made-up thing. You are totally on brand here. We are going to have a whole show about money, which is something weirdly after, I'm not sure where we're up to like six years of this show. We have never actually spent an episode talking about money. It's about time, if you asked me, that we had an episode of Slate Money talking about money.

So this is what we are going to do.

We're going to talk about money, what it is, what it means.

It's relationship with power.

We're going to talk about Bitcoin and whether that really counts as money.

We're going to talk about mortgages.

Why not?

We're going to even have a Slate Plus segment about debt service to GDP ratios.

We go all manner of places in this here show. It's a good one because we have a proper

professional podcaster, basically driving the bus for a change. So you have that to look forward

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