Hello, welcome to the trans-Pacific Tractor Beams edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

Emily, why am I calling it Trans-Pacific Tractor Beams?

I mean, I don't really know, but I think it's because we're discussing trade and tractors for farmers

and how the TPP could have been good.

I am Felix Hammond of Axios, and I take full responsibility for the title of this show,

and I apologize for it.

Emily Peck of Huff Post.

Hello.

You are utterly befuddled by the title of this show, and you are probably like 99% of the listeners.

Anna Schumansky, you're the casting vote.

Does the title of this show make any sense?

I'm going to go with no.

But you're listening anyway, so thank you.

But thank you all for listening to this incomprehensibly titled show. I promise you that the actual show itself will make more sense.

We will talk about the tractors and the soybeans and the Chinese trade deal.

We will talk about Visa buying clad for $5.3 billion.

And we will talk about the Rooney Rule, which is a way of trying to increase minorities in the upper echelons of an organization and whether

it actually works or not. Also, a Slate Plus about Nike vaporflies, all that. And more,

we have a great numbers round coming up on Slate Money. Okay, so the big news of the week was a trade deal with China. I mean, there were actually

two trade deals this week. In case you hadn't noticed, and most people didn't, the

usenka got signed, or it wasn't signed, but it was passed by the Senate, by a massive bipartisan

consensus.

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