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Hello. Welcome to the Quick Bites edition of Slate Money, a guide to the business and finance news of the week. This is your quick bite of information from me, Felix Salmon of Axios, from Emily Peck of HuffPost, from hello. From Anna Shymansky of Breakingviews.
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We are going to be talking about Robinhood Day trading, stock market frothiness and just how bad it is or isn't. We are going to be talking about Quibi, the streaming service that you almost certainly are not paying for. We are going to be talking about children's nutrition and what what has happened to that over the course of this pandemic. And in the Slate plus, we're going to be talking about PPP shaming and whether we should be upset about people who received money from the PPP who maybe didn't deserve it or who you might think didn't deserve it. That's this week. And next week we are going to be running a live show. If you want to be part of the taping of the live show, just tune in to Slate Money Live on Wednesday evening at 7pm Eastern. The link for that is in the show notes. All of that coming up on Slate Money. We're going to start with Robinhood, which is the place where you go to trade stocks when you think they're going up. Basically. It seems to have become that. Anyway, there's a lot of stocks going up right now, Tesla being the one you've almost certainly heard of. It's now trading, I believe the technical term is $8 billion a share, something like that. It is bigger than every other car company in the world combined. The stock only ever goes up. This proves the Bastille Sports guy's thesis that stocks only ever go up, especially if they're Tesla and there's a whole bunch of others, because Tesla is an electric car company. There's been this halo effect on other electric car companies, even ones which have no products, like Nikola, which was just an obvious Tesla knockoff, which is now worth $20 billion despite the fact that it has no product and basically no revenue. And no revenue. There's a spac. There's literally a company which doesn't even own anything. One of these special purpose acquisition, blank check companies which like doubled in price just on a rumor that it was going to buy Fisker, which is a bankrupt electric car company, basically. It's unbelievable. There's so much frothiness. One of the things that I mentioned in my newsletter this week was lemonade, which I can say this on the podcast, is a crappy home insurance startup came out of the gates to this IPO and is now worth billions of dollars for no obvious reason, except for something, something Millennial ipo, something. And there's all of these blank check companies, which don't own anything and have no revenues, and they're all, you know, raising billions of dollars. And the place where all of the cool kids are buying all of these stocks and shares is Robinhood, because Robinhood was the first company which allowed you to buy stocks and shares for free. So, Anna, what is your opinion on all of this?
