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business and finance. I'm Felix Salmon, senior editor at Fusion, and today we're going to be talking about Credit

Suisse, the Swiss Bank convicted of conspiring to help tax evasion.

Does the first criminal conviction of a big bank make a dent in the argument

that big banks are too big to jail? We'll talk about the case for reparations, the

14,000 word essay from Tanahassee Coates in the Atlantic

that is both more and less than an argument for writing checks to descendants of

slaves and then we'll talk about the quarter million dollar dinners that

former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has been having with investors is that

business as usual is it corruption is it both, as ever, we will go around the table for a lightning round of interesting numbers from this past week.

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