Hello! Welcome to the Mobile Monopoly edition of Slate Money,

Your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon, joined as ever by Anna Shimanski.

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And by The Huffington Post's, one and only Emily Peck.

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And we are going to be talking about things on the move.

We are going to be talking about New York's slightly fucked up, is that a good technical term?

I'd remove this slightly.

Subways. If you've been to New York in the past couple years,

you might well have a horror story of being on the subway, and we are going to see if that is

fixable. We know it's bad. The interesting question is whether it's

fixable and whether it is fixable by a person and we're going to talk a little bit about this Brit who's come in to try and fix it

We are also going to talk because it's an awesome story about what I called in a slate piece,

Performative vegetarianism.

And which is We Works' latest corporate policy,

certain people think it's incredibly stupid,

though certain people would include myself.

But mostly, or initially at any rate, we are going to talk about a rather large fine which

Margarator Vestager the European Community or European Union antitrust chief who's kind of awesome, we like her, has brought down on

Google.

Emily, what's the background here?

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