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Hello and welcome to the Froth is nonlinear edition of Slate Money.

It's your weekly guide, I hope, to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Kathy O'Neill.

I'm in for Felix Sandman this week.

On the show, we pick up where we left off last week with a gender gap and a new argument that it might close on its own.

Hmm. Well ponder whether China is the next Japan, whatever that means, and we'll do our best to explain

why so many companies are buying back their own shares.

With me in New York is Slate's own Moneybox columnist Jordan Weisman, and we also have a very special

guest to help us through Felix's sad absence, Cardiff Garcia of F.T.

Alphaville.

Cardiff, you want to say a couple words about yourself and your background?

Sure. I am the US editor of F.T. Alphaville and as funky as that title sounds I'm really just a blogger.

Alphaville is the flagship economics and finance blog of the Financial Times and we write about all kinds of quirky and

nerdy things so if your previous podcast or any indication I think I'm going to

fit right in. Also I'd like to add, Cardiff is Wiley Renoughton is a avid kickboxer.

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