Hello, welcome to the inspecting our own meat 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 the Huffington Post.

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And Anna Shamansky.

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And we have really been examining our bologna sandwiches today.

No, we have not been.

We are going to talk about why we feel perfectly

comfortable eating bologna sandwiches without inspecting them. We are going to do that in the

context of a little dive into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has...

Bologna? Is it bologna? This is America. It's Bologna. I'm very bad at pronouncing American.

Apologies to all the American listeners. Bologna sandwiches. Not to shame your pronunciation or anything, but I feel like, you know. When it's bologna, it's bologna. Bologna, you're right. It's bologna. You're right. It's bologna is disgusting, and bologna is a town. I was going to say it's a very different thing.

Melonias is going to belonia in Italy, which has the best food in the world.

So if you want to go eat great food, go to Bologna. Anyway, we are going to talk about Pinterest and Zoom and Blackstone and public markets and a whole bunch of equity stuff because, hey, we're a money show. We get to do that kind of stock markety content now and

again. And we're also going to talk about infrastructure, which is not boring. Honestly, no,

this is a good one. We're going to talk about the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

and how the reaction to it mirrors like the problem with infrastructure in every country

in the world, especially

the United States. All of that coming up on slate money. So let's talk about all of these

IPOs. The lift one kind of fell off a cliff. A little bit. Apparently it turns out that

the massive optimism that people had about IPOs, which I remember IPO optimism from 1999. I am that old.

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