Hello!

Hello! Welcome to the Momentous Tweets edition of Slate Money,

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

I'm Felix Salmon. I am joined by Anna Shimansky and...

Hello? Not. By Emily Peck of the Huffington Post who is sunning herself in somewhere much warmer than where we are, instead

and even more fabulously, to be honest. We have Matthew Rose of the Wall Street

Journal.

Hello. Matthew, what do you do at the Wall Street Journal. Hello?

Matthew, what do you do at the Wall Street Journal?

It's a hard thing to explain.

Okay, so don't bother.

I edit stories.

Suffice to say that he works at the Wall Street Journal and he's reportedly quite clever.

So we're gonna see about that was

we are going to talk about the momentous tweet that was sent out by my

ex-boss Christina Freeland complaining about women getting arrested in Saudi Arabia and the rather

enormous and what's the word not very proportional response that Saudi Arabia had to that tweet. We are going to talk

about Pepsico which no longer has a female CEO and probably won't for the foreseeable future, much like the rest of the Fortune 500.

But obviously because this is the Business and Finance news of the week

we are going to talk about another momentous tweet which is the

one sent by Elon Musk in the middle of the trading day where he's like I'm thinking

of taking Tesla private at $420 a share and funding is secured.

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