Hello and welcome to the Felix hates polls edition of Slate Money, your guide to the

business and finance news of the week. I am Emily Peck of Funrise. I am here with

Stacey Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg. Hello. And of course, I am here with your host,

your actual host, Felix Salmon, the hater of Polls, Felix? We are all hosts here, Emily.

Are you going to say your trademark greeting?

Hello, hello, everyone.

We had to try and work out whether Emily could do that

because I'm not going to call this the Felix Hates Polls editions.

That would be weirdly self-referential.

But we are going to talk about me hating polls. We are. And Emily did a great job. We're going to talk about Felix hating

polls. We are going to talk about customers behaving very, very badly and try and figure out

exactly why that is. We are going to talk about the drama at the IMF, which I initially thought was

boring, but you'll come to see is actually fascinating and highly political. We are going to talk

about the survey thing, as I mentioned. And in plus today, we're getting into crypto again,

because now we have our resident expert, Stacey, who can tell us

everything we need to know about Coinbase and regulation, all coming up on Slate Money.

So this week we had the Joltz survey, which stands for something, something labor turnover.

Basically, it's this big national, official, federal government survey, which measures how many

people are quitting their jobs.

And in August, it was an absolute record.

It was 2.9% of every single employed person in America quit their job in August.

That's an all-time high. I did some mathematics. If you keep that level going for 12 months,

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