Hello and welcome to the Lambos or food stamps episode of Slate Money, your guide to

the business and finance news of the week Emily Peck of Axios is here.

She hates this so much.

I protest. I formally protest the title of this podcast. It's offensive.

It is offensive. We're going to go dark in this show. I am Felix Salmon of Axios

and we, Genex Axions, are being joined this week by Jennifer Davis.

Jennifer, welcome. Thank you so much for having me.

Introduce yourself, Jennifer. What brings you to this show?

I am a senior at Stanford studying symbolic systems, which is basically computer science,

philosophy, linguistics. We're major Stanford invented and I write for a

palladium magazine about crypto and culture and I recently published an article

called When the Stagnation Goes Virtual about decadence in NFT culture.

So we are going to talk to you about that. We are going to talk to you about the darkness

at the heart of Gen Z and how terrifyingly nihilistic the vision is these days and it's

an amazing conversation which we're going to actually continue in the Slate Plus because

there's so much of it and it's so rich. We are also, however, going to talk about the news.

We are going to talk about the sanctions that companies are imposing on Russia and why they're

doing that and what they hope to achieve by it and I am going to have a little rant as well

about the London Metal Six Change and the nickel market and whether the LME should have suspended

trading in nickel. It is a packed show and it's all coming up on Slate Money.

Okay, Emily, let's start with sanctions. We haven't really gone into a lot of detail on

the astonishing degree of, especially corporate sanctions that are being imposed on Russia right

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