Hello and welcome to the Lucky Strike Edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix salmon of Axios.

Anna Schmanski is here from Finland or

or thereabouts.

Michigan.

Some Northern place.

Michigan, Finland, they're all the same.

Emily Peck is here from the Huffington Post.

Hello.

Max Jacobs is in the studio to talk about sportsball.

Hi Max.

Hello.

Max Jacobs is normally on the other side of the glass, but he is going to join us later for a deep

dive into the economics of baseball and whether the market is clearing and what's happening with all of these

valuable players who don't seem to be able to get a job. That is coming up on Slate Plus

but before we get there we have a jam-packed show full of labor fights. We have people going on strike, especially

teachers and people who work for Marriott and people like that. We're going to talk about

why that is happening. We are going to talk about Finland, Finland, Finland's fascinating and they kind of did.

It's not exactly a universal basic incoming experiment, but it's kind of treated like that. We're going to see how that went and we're going to answer the eternal question of

Is it a good thing when people give you money for free. Tough question.

spoiler alert.

It's actually a good thing.

We are going to start, however, with your tax refund.

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