The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the House of Cards edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon.

I am joined not only by Anna Schmanski.

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Not only by The Huffington Post's amazing. Hello? investigative journalist and author Mr. John Carey Row.

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Welcome to Slate Money.

I kind of feel like you don't need any introduction anymore because you, like, our entire audience has probably read your book at this point and heard you on a million podcasts and you are just

the most celebrity journalist in America right now

So congratulations on the book which is called

Bad blood, secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup. And of course you are you have written this entire book basically about Slate Money's favorite

Grifter, Ms Elizabeth Holmes.

So we are going to talk to you about that.

We are also going to talk about just capital and the just 500 which is a new stock index

if you don't like the S&P 500 because you think it's a bit evil this is maybe a bit less evil. We are going to talk about

Netflix because New York magazine has a really kind of deep dive into what they're up to over there which I learned quite a lot from.

But of course, John, we are going to start with this book of yours, which is selling like

hot cakes, I hear hear is this true. I mean I guess it's been on the New York

Times bestseller list for three weeks in a row now albeit slipping

each week from six to nine to 15 this past week.

But yeah, I mean sales have been really not only good but very consistent and you know judging from my email inbox and all

the emails I get over LinkedIn and and the tweets it's it's really seems to be striking a chord and I'm getting a lot of great

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