Hello and welcome to the pandemic of rage episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael.

Hello, from Rageville.

Stacey is in Austin, Texas, the capital of Texas, full of very angry politicians, including

Ted Cruz.

I'm here also with Emily Peck of Fundrise.

Hello. Who's in a comfortable New York

state suburb, and we are going to talk about Delta. We haven't talked about it nearly enough on

this show. We're going to talk about how it is changing the country and the world. We are also

going to talk about Joe Biden. We haven't talked about him much on this show since he became president, but he came out this week and wrote a letter to OPEC.

So we're going to talk about his letter to OPEC.

And we're going to talk about gas prices and how and whether they matter.

And we are going to talk quite a lot about buy now, later which is the sexy new gen z way of

buying things on credit that and a slate plus segment on mr white hat the person who stole

six hundred and eleven million dollars of crypto and then gave it back it's all coming up

on slate money so let's talk about Delta because amazingly,

we haven't really talked about Delta on this show so far. And it seems to be the main thing

that everyone's talking about. I just saw some news that Facebook is now officially putting,

pushing back.

It's back to the office date to January.

There has been a lot of talk about how this is basically the second wave of COVID restrictions and lockdowns know, we can't just trust in the vaccines

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