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Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

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

Hello, hello.

With Elizabeth Spires, you're still got the New York Times thing going.

Yep.

It's awesome.

We love it.

We have a cool show this week.

We are going to talk about debanking.

If you have had your bank account frozen and been told that you have to move somewhere else and they're not going to tell you why, you will know exactly what I'm talking about. We're going to talk about whether this has been happening with uncommon frequency to people in the crypto world and whether that's all some kind of Elizabeth Warren conspiracy.

We are going to talk about Netflix, which has become a big normal company rather than a fast-growing

tech company.

We are going to talk about Spotify, which has become a big normal company rather than a fast-growing

tech company.

We have a Slate Plus segment about crumble cookies and waiting online and doing it for the

gram. It's all coming up on Slate Money.

So let's start with a big conspiracy theory, which is also kind of real, but not really, which is this whole thing about debanking.

Friend of the pod, Ron Lieber, has had a bunch of stuff about how banks will just debank you. You'll be poodling along, having a perfectly normal life, and then one day your bank will say, all of your

funds have frozen, and you need to take all of your money out right now, and we're not going to

bank you anymore, and you'll say, what bank you anymore and you'll say what and they'll

say sorry and you'll say why and they'll say sorry and it's very annoying and this has been

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