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Until 18-plus, T's and C supply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Hello and welcome to Slate Money, our weekly podcast guiding you through the

important business and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion coming to you this week from

London for this very special transatlantic episode. This week we'll talk

about big banks and the billions of dollars that they're both making and coughing up to the feds.

We'll talk about big tobacco getting bigger or smaller, depending on how you look at it with the merger of Reynolds and

Lorillard and then we'll turn to the saga of the joint strike fighter the most

expensive fighter plane the world has ever seen.

And last but not least, we'll wrap up with our lightning round of the numbers that caught our attention this week.

But first, let me introduce a very special guest, the one the only John Gapper, the business

commentator, FT editor and general all-around awesome person at the Financial Times.

We're here in the Financial Times studio in London.

John, welcome. Thank you. And tell us what your number is this week. My number is a hundred billion.

100, but that could be the largest number we've ever had on the

podcast that's an awesomely big number and joining us from New York is regular

guest Kathy O'Neill the head of the lead program for data journalism at Columbia University.

What's your number this week, Kathy?

My number is 3.2.

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