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Hello, and welcome to the ticking time bomb edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon, and just to make this official, this is the crew now.

Anna Shamansky.

Hello.

Emily Peck.

Hello.

And me.

We are the Slate Money crew for the foreseeable.

This is going to be the good ship slate money, at least until in sort of Theseus's ship

form it changes.

But for the time being, Slate Money is Felix and Anna and Emily.

And of course, Dan Schrader, who's producing,

who's sitting behind the piece of glass and who is going to bring on all manner of important

and fabulous people. He has a list. It's very exciting. So there's going to be important

and fabulous people coming on. But this week, we are just going to talk about the Pope.

We don't need important and fabulous people to talk about the Pope.

The Pope came out with a very long encyclical.

Congratulations to you, if you read the whole thing, all about capitalism.

So we'll talk about what the Pope thinks,

about capitalism in general and, of course, credit default swaps, because the Pope has

opinions on credit default swaps. We are going to talk about customer service and whether

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