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Hello and welcome to Slate Money, our weekly podcast guiding you through the important business and

finance news of the world I'm Felix Salmon of fusion in New York and on the show this

week we're all we're gonna be talking all about happy endings in more ways than one.

Not in that way I don't think.

I think we are actually going to be talking about that way.

The Fed is ending its highly controversial quantitative easing

program and I think people are not generally pretty happy about that. Then

there's the whole question of American

apparel, Dove Chani and all manner of endings, happy and maybe not so happy

there.

And for dessert we'll talk about the end of publicly traded cupcakes because you know

there was a point in time not so long ago when you could buy cupcakes on the

NASDAQ and of course we'll wrap up with our numbers lightning round as we do every week

Let me ask Kathy O'Neill and introduce her as well the head of the lead program for data journalism at Columbia University

Kathy what is your number this week?

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