Hello!

Welcome to the multi-billionaire toddler edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix I'm one of Axios. I'm joined by Elizabeth Spires.

Hello. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Axios. Hello hello hello hello hello.

We're going to talk about a multi-billionaire toddler this week, because we didn't last week,

going into depth, or a certain amount of depth anyway, on this whole issue of Twitter versus

Elon Musk, which is now going to be a court case in Delaware.

We are going to talk about crimes and whether you should talk about your crimes on

slack or text messages, or even whether you should be texting at all if you

work for a bank. The banks all seem to be getting fined for this. We are going to talk about

the National Bureau for Economic Research and whether it should be

publishing research that is bought and paid for by companies like Uber.

We have a quite fun slate plus segment about Bill Gates and his donation to the Gates

Foundation and whether this is a reaction to what Mackenzie Scott has been

doing in terms of increasing her giving.

We have a whole bit about heated car seats.

It's all coming up on slate money. So... Slate Money.

So I thought when Slate Money came out last week that we were the victims of terrible timing, the Elon Musk declaration that he was terminating

his takeover bid of Twitter came out

after we recorded Slate Money,

but before Slate Money actually came out in that short little

interregnum and I'm like oh that's terrible timing turns out the timing wasn't that bad because

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