Hello and welcome to the good science crap science episode of Sleet Money, your guide to the

business and finance news of the week.

And boy did we have a bunch of different things that we wanted to talk about this week.

I am Felix Salmon of Axios. I am here with Anna Schmanski of Breaking Views.

Hello. I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost.

Hello.

And all three of us are mostly just going to take a back seat in this episode to the one and only

Kathy O'Neill you are back.

Yay!

Welcome back.

It has been a long time since you were last on Slate Money

and we love you very much and oh my God do we have a lot of stuff to talk to you about we are going to ask you the questions which we have been saving up for months about coronavirus and modeling it and how much should we thank or blame all of the epidemiologists who are trying to

model this disease. We are going to talk about the reckoning that is happening with all the people losing their jobs

in racist institutions. We are going to talk about the Ford Foundation and

whether they should be borrowing money right now. And if you are a Slate Plus member, which

you should be, you will have the glory of listening to Kathy O'Neill go off on the subject of VC-funded female orgasms and smart bucklegs.

It's a great slate plus. All of that coming up on sleep money. So let's start Kathy

because you are the Queen of All Things models.

Let's start with models.

We've been talking about coronavirus modeling

for what, three or four months now,

more than that, six months, I guess,

...