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Hello! And welcome to the Brain in a VAT edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I am Felix Hammond of Fusion. I'm joined by, I'm going to do it the other way around this week.

I'm joined by Slate's Moneybox columnist,

Jordan Wiseman. Hello, Felix. I am also joined by Tampon Lady. Thank you.

And professional plaintiff, Kathy O'Neill. Hi. How's it going?

Tampon lady. Tampon.

Kathy O'Neill is, we're going to come to this in a minute.

Kathy O'Neill is filing a lawsuit.

And in the lawsuit, it explains who Kathy O'Neill is, and it talks about how you're a data scientist and a blogger, and it says nothing about Slate Money.

I'm sorry about that, yeah.

I feel excluded and left out.

Yeah, well, I do have other parts of my life that I don't.

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