Hello and welcome to the proxy for vibes episode of Slate Money or Guide to the Business

and Binance News of the Week I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, I'm here with Emily Peck, also

of Axios. Hello. And we have a very special guest this week. Elizabeth Spires, welcome. Thanks

for having me. Introduce yourself a little bit like we go way back but who are you and

what are you up to these days? Yeah, I think I've known Felix for two decades now from

early early New York blogging days, but I mostly a political commentator these days I write

a lot of local columns, but I also co-author the Peter column here at Slate with my co-author

Athena Valentine and we write about sort of ethics of money issues. We get a lot of letters

about people who are very mad at whatever they inherited. So if you have an issue or a problem

that you're dealing with where you want advice from either of us you can email Slate anonymously

and send us your questions and your problems and we will try to help you. Exciting. We have no

personal finance content in this here show, but maybe that can be rectified in a future episode.

Can we do an all-advice episode of Slate Money? That'd be so fun. Oh my god, that sounds terrifying.

I feel like Paydard is less, you know, what should I do with my 401k than a financial version

of am I the asshole? Yes. Because the letters are generally about this bad behavior around

money. We might just do that. We might start talking about financial bad behavior, although we do

that quite a bit. This week's episode is all about the Fed, which rates this week and what the

government, including the Fed, can do to reassure Americans that inflation is not something to worry

about. We're going to talk about the dollar and how strong it is globally and whether that

might not be around forever. We're going to talk about city group and other companies that are

providing basic healthcare availability to their employees in Texas, which means they need to

get on plane sometimes, given the lower in Texas. We have a Slate Plus about Sarah Bloom-Raskin,

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