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Welcome to the cap capKper edition of Slate Money,

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

I am Felix Hammond, I get all of my news by reading words and so I was mentally

subvocalizing something about Kapernik apparently it's not Kapernik

apparently it's Kapanik yes it is so now I've learned that Kapanick has got up to a Nike

caper this week. There has been all manner of Bruhaha surrounding it even up to presidential tweets although that bar was pretty low these days

we are going to talk about Nike and their marketing prowess we are going to talk about Les Moonviz. We've talked about him before but he might be on the outs and what is going on at CBS and what is going on at national amusements and also what is going

on at Warner Media, which used to be Warner Brothers, have they suddenly got woke? We are going to talk about that. We are also going to talk about the

death of the death of cash in India. We have a big update for you on a story which we had about a year or so ago I think.

In any case, oh and we are going to have a plus segment about the fact that there were now two companies

in America worth a trillion dollars.

Or they were. There were.

Once upon a time there was me a one like a few days ago and then briefly there was another one.

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