Hello and welcome to the Mrs. Wata Navi's favorite podcast edition of Slate Money,

your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

We had a mega bank merger this week which we are not going to talk about

so if you're interested in North Carolina banking institutions maybe go somewhere else for that I't know, but actually don't stick around here because we had to bump that for even more awesome

Podcasty content.

Foremost among which is podcasty content.

We are going to talk all about the podcasty content

M&A space, Spotify is trying to do amazing things in podcasts and various awesome people in Brooklyn

have managed to get rich as a result so we're all very happy about this.

We are going to talk about women in Japan

and how much they're working both inside and outside

the office and whether that's ever going to change. We are going to talk about savings rates and did you know that you can actually just keep your money in the bank in a savings account and get like 2.5% on it, which is amazing and you haven't been able to do that for years.

Is this something that you will be able to expect from your local High Street Bank or not.

We're going to talk about that.

We are even going to talk about Jeff Bezos and David Packer in Slate Plus. You're going to want to stick around for that one because Emily is going to make you laugh.

And all of which is listening to the show I am Felix Salmon of Axagos Emily is I'm Emily Peck of the

Huffington Post and Anna is Anna Shimanski and between the three of us we have

slate money I guess. Well done us.

Emily Peck.

Hello.

How much do you think slate money is worth?

I think it's worth approximately $10 billion.

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