Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm

Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with my colleague Emily Peck of Axios. Hi. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires,

who writes at the New York Times and is also a freelance writer for other places.

Hello. We are going to talk about freelance writers and specifically the ones who are members

of the WGA Union, who are on strike. What is going on with the right to strike? Is it a good idea?

What are the economics? We will unpack all of that. We will talk about monetary policy and the

Fed and whether they're going to raise interest rates or not, what difference it would make.

We are going to talk about China and whether the big CEOs of the world are going to be able to countervail against the G7 and all of the anti-China sentiment that is coming out of the US government and other governments.

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