Hello.

Welcome to the spoiled children edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. Emily Peck is here

from The Huffington Post. Hello. And Anna Szymanski is here as well. Hello. And all of the big news that we

maybe didn't get to, due to the fact that we were talking about global warming last week,

is all going to get packed into this show. We are going to talk about

Operation Varsity Blues and all of the advantages that rich kids have in this here country.

We are going to talk about Boeing and their safety or lack thereof. We are going to talk

about Europe's most too big to fail, biggest worst bank, Deutsche Bank,

and whether if you tie that rock to the other rock known as Comets Bank that somehow the two of

them will manage to float. Anna actually is going to make the case that they will. Stay tuned for

that because it's a great moment in Anna Shemansky

contrarianism. All of that and a Slate Plus on Alan Kruger is coming up on Slate Money.

Emily, hi. The Operation Varsity Blues scandal, I think it touched a nerve.

Oh yeah. This scandal has everything.

It's, I feel like this one, like, it's not one of those like two-day news stories.

This one's going to keep on reverberating for a while because it is like the tip of the iceberg,

but people realize that it's probably number one, it's much bigger than we know already because there are like hundreds of parents involved.

And then we only know like a few dozen of them.

But number two, like it just reinforces everybody's priors about how completely broken the American education system is.

Yeah.

I mean, I think you're exactly right because this story broke the fact that I think

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