Hello, welcome to the butt the gift cards edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axiost.

I'm joined by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

Hello.

Who has gift cards in her wallet and she doesn't want them to go worthless when the company goes bust.

I do have a gift card in my wallet, actually.

We are also joined by Anna Shamansky, who is a meanie who hates gift cards and thinks they

should go bad.

Down with the gift card.

Down with the gift cards.

We are going to have a jolly argy-bargy debate about, not really about gift cards, although

they do enter into it, but about private equity, is it good, is it bad,

should it be regulated, if it should be regulated, how should it be regulated? And of course,

in general, about Elizabeth Warren, who is, you know, she has a plan for that. You will be surprised

to hear. We're going to talk about her plan. We are also going to talk about Netflix and whether its business model makes any sense. And we are going to talk about Netflix and whether it's business model makes any sense.

And we are going to talk about gentrification and whether it maybe isn't as bad as people think it is.

Are you going to tease cats?

Oh.

We are also going to have an amazing Slate Plus segment.

You should probably subscribe to Slate Plus just to listen to this segment.

It's kind of incredible all about CGI Cats.

You're going to have to listen to that one.

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