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

I'm Felix Hammond of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Pack of Huffpost.

Hello.

And I am very happy and also sad to be here with Anna Shemanski, whose last proper episode of Slate Money.

This is Anna. we have dedicated this episode to you.

We get to talk about everything that you want to talk about except, or maybe fortuitously,

there's a lot of stuff in the news, which is well in your wheelhouse this week. So we are going to talk about the Texas energy crazy.

We're going to talk about the Citibank crazy, sending $900 million to creditors, which

you shouldn't have done.

We are going to answer a bunch of questions from listeners. Thank you for writing those in. Anna,

how many, how many are you going to answer? I am answering here. I can tell you. Did you make a

spreadsheet? Did you make a spreadsheet? It's not a spreadsheet. It's a word document. There's a

word document. I am answering five questions. So thank you for sending

those in. We have a bunch of content here in this here show. And if you stay tuned for Slate Plus,

you get to hear Anna Schumansky's defense of Tom Brady, which I can tell you is worth the

price of Slate Plus membership on

its own. So all of that coming up on Slate money. Anna, what happened in Texas? We have you for one more

week and we need you to explain Texas to us. So there was a freak storm in Texas and then basically a perfect storm of events that led to massive power outages, which has then led everyone to try to figure out what has happened.

Is it because of deregulation?

Is it because of the Republicans' favorite thing to blame

it on wind turbines? Or is it from a combination of many things? One of the things I love about

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