Hello and welcome to the Taylor Swift is a volatile asset edition of Slate Money or guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I am coming to you from Oxfordshire, where I have flown for a conference, and I'm joined

by the amazing Janine Gibson.

Hi, Janine.

Hi.

You are, you have some of a grand job at the Financial Times. Oh, I'm an assistant editor at the Financial Times. You just have a new boss. Congratulations. The old one hasn't left yet, so I think he would be slightly offended. January is the handover. In January, the FT2 will be taken over by a woman, just like all the institutions should be. Janine is the best person in the world.

So you are going to be here to talk to us about Hong Kong and other things. But before we get

there, we also need to mention as ever that we are joined by Emily Peck of HuffPost in New York.

Hello. And also Anna Shumansky of Breaking Views. Hello. And also Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views.

Hello.

And what's on the menu for this week?

I feel like we have to talk about Taylor Swift, obviously.

And we also need to talk about TikTok because I have become addicted to TikTok and I need

to understand what is going on with its Chinese ownership.

But since we're thinking about China, I think we should start by talking about Hong Kong

because that seems to be going from bad to worse.

So I think that's the menu for today.

It's going to be Hong Kong and Taylor Swift and Kylie Jenner, because obviously, and TikTok.

And the slate plus segment all about Hummus Wars.

You're going to want to listen to that one.

All coming up on Slate Money.

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