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Hello and welcome to the quadraphonic edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business

and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion in New York and we're going to call this the quadrifying it

I don't know the hip to be square something quad related quadr

Quadrifania because you will be hearing four topics instead of our usual three that we are really pushing the

boat out this week it's a heavy news week you probably noticed and so we couldn't

fit it all in with just three topics.

So we're going to talk about the currency crisis in Russia

and the impact that raising interest rates and a weak lubele are having on oil markets, Russian consumers, and everything, really, even the US stock market.

Then Congress has rolled back a provision of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms.

You may have heard of the swaps push out

and the big internal fight within the Democratic Party.

We'll talk about that.

And of course, we are going to talk about the interview

because everyone's talking about the interview and it's a great story so we're

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