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

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Huffpost, who has a big scoop this week all about how women's brains are

like pancakes. My brain is more like a colander, to be honest. Things come through and it just

comes straight out the other side.

I retain nothing.

But here to help me learn stuff as ever is Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views.

Hello.

We are going to be talking about WeWork because that is the big news of the week.

What is going on with WeWork? And itholder, soft bank, its biggest shareholder.

It's not going to be 80% shareholder of WeWork.

We are going to talk about Emily's big scoop about pancake brains.

You learned this week from Ernst & Young that women's brains are like pancakes, whereas men's

brains are like waffles. That is correct. And it makes me hungry every time we talk about it.

So this is going to be a hungry-making edition of Slate Money. We are also going to talk about my

book review and about this book called Darkness by Design by this chap called Walter Matley and

the theory he has which I think I'm kind of convinced by that the stock market all went to

shit after 2005. That and a Slate Plus segment on Chile all coming up on Slate Money.

Let's start by talking about WeWork, because in the annals of corporate implosions, there are many, but this one was impressive even by, you know, historical standards.

It's not just the valuation falling from 47 billion to 8 billion in the space of like a blink of an eye.

It's also just the way that the whole glorious edifice of unicorns and minotores and all

of these other things that we talk about just seems to have crumbled overnight.

It's amazing.

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