Hello! Welcome to the Inspecting Our Own Meat edition of Slate Money, Your Guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

Hello. And Anna Schmanski. Hello? And we have really been examining our bologna sandwiches today.

No, we have not been.

We are going to talk about why we feel perfectly comfortable

eating bologna sandwiches without inspecting them.

We are going to do that in the context of a little dive into the Consumer Financial Protection

Bureau.

Is it Bologna?

This is America, it's Bologna. I'm very bad at pronouncing American.

Apologies to all the American listeners. Bologna sandwiches. Not to shame your

pronunciation or anything, but I feel like you know... When it's baloney it's baloney. your

I feel like you know when it's baloney it's baloney you're right it's baloney because baloney is

disgusting and baloney is a town that's gonna say that's a very different thing

baloney is discussing and baloney is in baloney is in baloney is and Italy which has the best food in the world.

So if you want to go eat great food, go to Bologna.

Anyway, we are going to talk about Pinterest and Zoom and Blackstone and public markets and a whole bunch of equity stuff because hey we're a money show

we get to do that kind of stock markety content now and again and we're also going to talk

about infrastructure which is not boring.

Honestly, no, this is a good one.

We're going to talk about the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and how the reaction

to it mirrors like the problem with infrastructure in every country in the world, especially

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