Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Kind of Sotomayoraxios. I'll talk about that coming up. I'm joined by

Elizabeth Spires of New York Times and places like that. Hello. I'm joined by Emily Peck of Axios.

Hello, hello. And yeah, we're going to talk about the fact that I'm not actually, as of today,

at Axios anymore.

We're going to talk about all of this craziness in the job market, and especially the way that AI is eating people's jobs, what that means for white-collar employment, and indeed

just employment overall.

We are going to talk about crypto and stable coins and the way that truth social is now becoming a

Bitcoin holding vehicle. We have a Slate Plus segment with Dan Crimack of Axios all about

US Steel, which looks like it's getting bought by Nippon Steel, but no one really knows

for sure. It's all coming up on Sl slate money. So, Emily, this is coming out

on Saturday, which means that as of the date, this is coming out, I am not actually an employee

of Axios. So we won't have that double thing in the beginning where you say, I'm Felix

I'm in Eccas, and this is Emily Peck of Pick of Axios. That's over. That's all that matters. Yeah, that's basically

the main problem. We will find the solution, and that's all there is to talk about, right?

No, Felix, it's time. So you need to talk about, you know, what's next. Dude, I don't know

what to ask you what you want to say. So what normally

happens in America when someone leaves a job is that there's this big sort of weird cloud

of opacity around it and everyone's smiling and like, okay, sometimes there are like layoffs

and it's very clear what's happened. And sometimes someone is like very visibly fired for course and it's very clear what's happened. And sometimes someone

is like very visibly biared for cause and it's very clear what's happened. But once you reach a

certain level, most of the time it's kind of ambiguous. You're never quite sure what happened

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