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

I'm Felix Salmon. I am here with Emily Peck about here.

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I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times.

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We are going to talk about state capitalism, the country getting involved in private

businesses and telling them what to do and extracting money from it.

And guess who the great avatar of this is, what you've already guessed.

We're going to talk about that.

We are going to talk about wrench attacks and how to stop yourself from getting kidnapped and losing a finger if you're a crypto gazillionaire.

We are going to talk about Chrome and how central

it is, the piece of software that is, not the metal, to the entire world and especially to

Emily's life and how much money it might be worth in the world of AI. We have a slate-plus segment

on rain stoppers and whether there's any correlation between

price and quality if you're paying someone to make sure there's no rain on your wedding day.

It's a fun one this week.

So it's all coming up on sleep money.

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