Hello! Welcome to the Backidation Edition of Slate Money,

Your Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

My name is Felix Hammond. I work at Axios. I have here Emily Peck

at the Huffington Post and Anna Schmanski who loves nothing more than

back-quedations. Anna is going to tell us what that

that quedation is.

We are going to talk about the oil market.

You may have been reading headlines about war drums in the

Gulf and all manner of possible war between the US and Iran so we're going to talk about that and whether it has any

effect on the price of oil and even if it does have an effect on the price of oil

whether anyone should care. We are going to talk about South Africa and

whether they're going to expropriate land from the white

landowners who own most of the land right now and try and get it into the hands of the

majority black population.

We are also going to talk about home buying and why it's so expensive or more to the point

home selling and why that is so expensive and is there any chance that those 6% broker fees are going

to go away anytime soon we are even going to have a slate plus segment for you

lovely slate plus members all about a Jeff Coons rabbit.

All of that coming up on Slate Money.

So let's talk about South Africa where it's chaos right now in politics or I mean there's always

chaos in politics in South Africa.

Emily is just like nah, it's just business as usual.

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