Hello and welcome to the Fiscal Genie episode of Slate Money, your guide to, oh my God, what a week was this.

My name is Felix Salmon.

I work for Axios.

I am here with Emily Peck of Huffpost.

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I am here with Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views.

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We have managed to get, I don't know, probably about 10 minutes sleep between us, but we have a surprisingly coherent show today, given the general status of sleep deprivation.

We, of course, are going to talk about the result of the presidential election and what it means.

We could do nothing else than you would expect us to.

But there have been massive other news stories in business and finance this week that we also need to cover. So we are

going to talk about the ant IPO, which was meant to be the biggest IPO of all time and then just

didn't happen. And we are going to talk about a huge antitrust lawsuit that the Department of Justice

is bringing against Visa. These are big deals and I know that all you've been looking at is a bunch

of needles and election results. So we are going to bring you up to speed on what has been happening

in the world of business and finance as well as the election, all coming

up on slate money. So we have to start with the election, which let's just work on the assumption

here that we have a Biden presidency and a Republican Senate, which looks extremely likely, if not quite certain. What do you make of

that, Emily? So, yeah, we're recording, we should say, Friday morning, and the results still

aren't a total lockdown, but it does look like Biden's going to win. What I make of this is, I mean,

I think we'll be figuring out what to make of this for a long time.

But the initial thought is, I think Trump was repudiated.

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