Hello and welcome to the Eat a Hamburger edition of Sleep Money.

Your guides of the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Samuel of Axios, so I'm here with Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

Hello. We, that is Emily and I, are happy hamburger eaters. We are also here with Anna Schmanski who isn't. This is true.

Although I do eat. She does eat and what's more we should celebrate this week the

insanely successful IPO of Beyond Meat which went up a gazillion percent.

And so maybe, maybe now that Beyond Meat is a major public company and it might be eating more hamburgers. You never know.

We are going to talk about why both Jack Dorsey and

Quinnith Paltrow should be eating more hamburgers. We are going to revisit a little bit of what we talked

about last week because we skipped an important step in the group discussion

which we're going to try and unship in this episode.

So if you felt a little bit unsatisfied at all,

if you felt that it was not nutritious enough last week,

then we will give you some delicious nutritious Jack Dorsey, Gwyneth

Paltrow content at the end of this podcast. We are also going to talk about

kidnapping and ransom insurance, which is an amazing part of the world and the whole idea of kidnapping as a profession that people have.

But of course we have to start by talking about Donald Trump's disastrous Fed nominations.

He took two political hacks, Hermann Kane and Stephen Moore, and said that he would nominate

them both to the Federal Reserve Board and both of those have gone down in spectacular flames.

So we're going to talk about that coming right up on slate money.

Emily Peck, we were just walking in to the studio this morning when you said to me that Stephen

Moore, the economic analysts that everyone loves to hate, had written a column for the Wall Street Journal and I have it up in front of me now and it's the most amazing piece of primary documentation.

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