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Welcome to the Rolling Dice Edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost. Hello. I'm here with Anna

Shamansky of Breaking Views. Hello. And boy, did we have big news this week. The entire

system of monetary policy for the United States of America was unexpectedly transformed.

It's a big deal, people, so we are going to talk about that. We are going to talk about direct listings on the stock market, which are a new and fabulous thing that I think are going to become much more popular. And yes, we are going to talk

about rolling dice. We're going to talk about all of the answers that you guys sent in to the

question I posed last week. Thank you so much for sending in your answers. We're going to talk

a lot more about that. I am going to do all of this. I have to mention from the Gloria Studios of Seaplane Armada,

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listing on the New York Stock Exchange, fill your boots. It's an exciting show. Stay tuned.

It's all coming up on Slate Money. Okay okay this is a huge week i mean we're in

august and nothing happens in august except a bunch of central bankers disappear off to jackson

hole and go fly fishing this is by the way exactly why it happens at jackson hole it is because

paul volker was a big fan of fly fishing and the only way

they could get Paul Volcker to come to this conference was by doing it in Jackson Hole.

Now, of course, it's all virtual, but for the first time that I can ever remember,

Jackson Hole has actually committed like major news.

Jackson Hole is now like more of a news place than Davos ever has been.

Well, most things are a bigger news place than Davos has ever been.

This is true. But yeah, this is the first time ever that like some boondoggle conference has committed news.

And that is because the Fed came out at Jackson

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