Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Simon of Bloomberg with Emily Peck of Axios.

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With Elizabeth Spires as New York Times.

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And we are going to pick Emily's brain because she is back from California where she was

hanging out with a bunch of rich people who were drinking expensive coffee.

And we're going to learn what that was like.

We're going to learn whether the coffee was better over there.

We're going to learn whether there's a whole bunch of optimism in the world.

Spoiler alert, yes there is.

We are going to talk about one little example of that optimism,

which is the fact that GameStop is put in a bit for eBay.

We are going to talk about refreshes.

The whole show, though, frankly, is a refreshing show.

So stay tuned.

And all coming up, Slate Money.

Let's start with the business and finance news of the whole, what, year, pretty much, would you say, Emily?

Maybe even longer than that.

Maybe since 2025, January 20th, 2025.

Maybe that's where we start. That was when Donald Trump became the president for the second time and started implementing a very,

let's call it to be polite, post-neo-liberal set of economic policies.

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