Hello! Welcome to the You Can Never Have Too Many Bananas episode of Slate Money.

Your guys did a business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I have a British accent. We will talk

about that in Slate Plus. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios who does not have a

British accent. Hello and I say bananas. You say bananas and where and where's your

accent from Emily? Let's just say New York. We'll just say New York. And Elizabeth

Spires, if you listen to State Plus, you will hear her, desperately trying to do an English

patent, it's kind of glorious.

You claim that your accent is mostly Southern still?

No, I think it's mostly nowhere person now, but it's got a little southern inflection.

So Elizabeth is going to explain to us all of the politics behind the debt ceiling and why it's

so stupid and why it exists and why it hasn't been abolished. We are going to talk about

regulation of tech in general and of AI in particular and whether it's a good idea

and why at least one AI CEO seems to want it. We are going to talk about greed

inflation, the idea that inflation is caused by companies raising their profit margins and their prices

and just trying to make more money for their shareholders.

It's all coming up on slate money.

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