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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, a fusion, in New York.

And on the show this week, we are going to ponder the fate of Time Inc. which began trading on its own kicked out of the nest of Parents Company Time Warner.

We'll move on to talk about the chaos.

Uber is causing in Europe and also in the world of venture capital.

And finally we'll talk about Larry's

summer pick for best summer beach read, House of Debt.

Actually he said, it looks likely to be the most important economics book of 2014

when we all know who he's sub-tweeting when he said that and of course we'll wrap up

with our numbers lightning round as we do every week and this week I have decided as an executive decision that when I introduce Kathy O'Neill, the head of the lead program for data journalism at Columbia University,

she is going to tell me what her number is.

Hi Felix, my number is 4.9 million. And of course we also have Jordan Weisman,

the Moneybox Columnist for Sleet.

What's your number?

My number is 4.3 trillion.

He just had to do that. Even bigger. For those of you counting along at home,

my number by the way is 136. I'm keeping things in the realm of sensible. I am going to start however by talking

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