The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello!

And welcome to the Shared Values edition of Slate Money,

your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Hammond of Fusion. I'm here to talk with Anna Schumanski.

Hello.

It says here you're a senior strategy officer at a political risk startup. This is something I've not seen on my piece of paper before.

It's been there for a while. Yeah.

Oh my God. I never even noticed that. This is, this just goes to prove how much I... Wait, Anna, did you get a job? It's a job. It's a job. She's doing air quotes. Yeah, they're big air quotes. Okay, so, I mean, welcome Anna, who's a... Well, she's senior, which is good. And welcome to Jordan Wiseman, who's also senior.

You're a senior something something at sleep. Yes.

And we are going to actually do something, which we pride ourselves on generally not doing,

which is talking about the stock market.

We do it once in a while.

We do it once in a while.

And once in a while is more or less

the correct frequency to check in on the stock market. Especially the Dow. Yeah. It's like a pet you

don't have to mind too much. It's like a lizard of some sort or something. If, you know,

there are certain radio shows which pride themselves on doing the numbers every single day

and telling you what the stock market did this day compared to where it closed the last, the previous day.

That is stupid. Don't do that. Pay no attention to that. Do not sub-tweet. You know, I'm going to leave that alone.

Just go ahead. On the other hand, like paying no attention to the stock market whatsoever is if you do that, then you're missing out on an important data point.

So every so often, it's worth checking in on how it's doing.

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