Hello, and welcome to the It's a Wonderful life episode of Slate Money Goes to the movies.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with my colleague

Emily Peck. Hello, hello. Hello. And we are going to talk about It's a Wonderful Life,

which is obviously a movie about banking, but it's also a movie about Christmas. It's a movie about

community. We are going to talk about about community. We are going to talk about

algorithms amazingly. We are going to talk about intersectionality. But actually, we're just going to

have a lot of fun talking about Jim Stewart and George Bailey and what happens in this movie. Emily,

who's our guest? The wonderful Kathy O'Neill, the former co-host of Slate Money herself.

Kathy O'Neill is back from an undisclosed location.

So she is going to be joining us to talk about It's a Wonderful Life coming up on Slate Money Goes to the movies.

Kathy, you chose a classic Christmas movie.

You can't, you can't shrug and throw your hands in the air on a podcast, Kathy.

No one can see you doing that.

Oh, oh, oh, right.

No, no.

It wasn't to shrug.

It was more like a smug smile.

Listen, I mean, this is not only one of the my favorite movies um

i would say it's like up there um it makes me cry every single time including when i was

preparing for this uh this morning if you see like cry eyes that's why it's curious financially

to me it it it always sparks my curiosity and interest, and I never had, you know, the time or the reason to really delve at all into, like, the storyline, the underlying economic storyline.

Like, this is obviously a remake of Dickens' Christmas Carol,

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