Hello, and welcome to the city's edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and

finance news of the week.

We've been promising this one for a while

and it is finally here. I'm Felix Samp and Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost.

Hello. I'm here with Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views. Hello. And I'm here with Richard,

Florida. Introduce yourself, Richard. Who are you? And where are you from? I'm Richard Florida. I'm here with Richard Florida. Introduce yourself, Richard. Who are you and where are you from?

I'm Richard Florida. I'm originally from Newark. Sometimes I'm called an urban theorist. I actually

have a PhD in city and regional planning. I teach at the University of Toronto. Also, I'm a distinguished

fellow at NYU. And I live in Toronto most of the time,

but we've been hanging out in the warmth of our condominium in Miami Beach, which we never

had until we moved to Toronto, but Toronto is sufficiently cold that you want a place to go.

That's warm in the middle of winter, but we got stuck here longer than we usually are.

We are having you on to talk everything

about cities. We're going to talk a lot about New York, which is the epicenter of the crisis,

and why is the epicenter of the crisis and why other densities have not seen what New York has

seen. We're going to talk about restaurants. We're going to talk about retail. We're going to talk

about suburbs. We're going to talk about restaurants. We're going to talk about retail. We're going to talk about suburbs.

We're going to talk about all manner of questions related to the intersection of density and COVID.

We're also obviously, mostly in the numbers round, going to be talking about some of the numbers that came out during the jobs report this week, which was extraterraterestially terrible.

I think it's one way of putting it.

All that coming up on Slate Money.

So, Richard, it is awesome to have you here.

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