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

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, which is Greek for please subscribe to my newsletter.

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I am joined by Anna Shamansky.

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I am joined by the Huffington Post's very own Emily Beck.

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And we have had a really tough job this week trying to work out what to talk about because there is so much to talk about.

Amazingly, for all of the Elon crazy, we are not going to talk about Tesla, even though we could probably devote an entire

episode to the latest stuff going on there. We are not going to talk about Unilever, but I'm

really interested in that as well. I think this week we're going to talk about supply chains,

international geopolitical hacking, the fall and fall of General Electric. Remember that

used to be a big company which mattered? Yeah, you heard something about that. We are going to talk.

Let's start with Donald Trump, because we haven't spoken too much about his taxes of late.

And somewhere in the middle of this crazy new cycle, the New York Times drops 14,000 words of insane, like 18 month long investigation of Fred Trump's tax returns, revealing that Donald Trump was like making a million dollars a year at the age of seven

in all of these crazy waves that they used to get around inheritance tax.

And like this was really big in the news cycle for what, like 20 minutes?

Yeah, it was about a half an hour where people seemed to be excited about the New York Times story.

I don't think that many people actually read the all 14,000 words that Susan Craig and John Barstow wrote. I didn't. Wow. And we're

going to talk about it, which but the New York Times did a great thing, which is they like package

their story. They did the TLDR. They had like a two and a half thousand word TLDA. Yeah. And I guess

the big conclusion in terms of what we learned about Trump is we learned

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