Hello and welcome to Money Talks, where we talk to you interesting people about fascinating things.

And today we are talking about the most fascinating thing. Let's be honest, industry, the HBO series created by two ex-finance guys, Conrad Kay and Mickey Downs, which just ended its fourth season

this past Sunday night. Probably if you're listening, you watch industry, but in case you're

not watching and you're still listening, which I love you for that. Let's say it's a succession

for Gen Z, a darker Wall Street, but it's set in London. And this latest season, I wanted to talk about it

because it had a little bit of everything finance, everything business, everything politics.

It all seems to have real world echoes this year. There's Russian assets, FinTech company

that's really just nothing, built on scams,

short selling, Jeffrey Epstein-Gillain Maxwell-type plot line, Nazis.

So to talk about it, I'm here with the two people I wanted to talk about this show the most with.

Because one more thing I'll say about industry is you can come into it knowing

nothing about finance or business. You can watch it for the plot, the drama, the characters.

You can also come in and you can watch it and critique and nitpick and find all the parallels

to the business and finance news of the week and day and year and decade.

And to do that with me today, I have Hillary Frye, Slate's editor-in-chief to unpack all the

drama with me.

We have been watching all season long, slacking each other, texting each other, nonstop.

And I have the amazing Anna Schmanski, Reuters editor, former Slate Money host,

genius, brilliant finance mind. She is sitting right now, London's Canary Wharf behind her

in some massive sparkling high rise, I only assume. Welcome Hillary and Anna. Hello, hello. Hi. I am so excited to talk about

this show. You guys, like I said, are both sides of the industry coin. And together, we will

figure out what just happened in this season. And that's all coming up on Slate Money Talks.

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