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Hello and welcome to the second guessing edition of Slate Money, your weekly guide to the Business and Finance

News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion in New York, and on the show this week new information about the decision to let Lehman

Brothers fail back in 2008 the protests in Hong Kong and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on the dysfunctional

relationship between Treasury and the Federal Reserve. And we're rejoined

by Kathy O'Neill, our newest listener. She was merely a listener last week.

This week she's back in the chair where she belongs. Data scientist, blogger at mathbabe.org, and I have to quote listener Polly Powledge here.

She wrote to us this week to say that Kathy is, quote,

a wonderful load star of awesome female nerdiness,

which, yes, of course.

Kathy as a most recent newest and most valued listener you have a complaint or comment

about last week's episode.

Thank you Felix and I appreciate you asking.

I really did enjoy last week for the most part, but there's this one phrase that I heard

use more than once called opening the kimono. It was used once. No, more than once called opening the

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