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Hello and welcome to the Disney World edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion.

Anna Shamanki is here.

Jordan Weissman of Slate is here.

Yep.

Hello.

And I wanted to do this thing where I was like, welcome to the Business and finance news of 10 years ago, because right

now is one of those weeks where everyone.

It's like, it's 10 years since the beginning of the financial crisis.

But there have been many beginnings of the financial crisis.

And I feel like maybe BNP Paribar Subprime Fund freezing redemptions is not the only or even main beginning of the financial

crisis. So let us know on SlateMoney at Slate.com, number one, when do you think the financial

crisis really happened? Like, when did it really kick into gear? When was the big day?

And number two, is this something we should even be talking about 10 years later?

Can I just say that September 15th, the day Lehman Brothers fell, I had been on vacation for a week, and I came back. I opened the door to the office.

And one of the guys I worked with was on the floor, throwing papers up in the air and was like, welcome back.

That's true story.

That's amazing.

I was in Las Vegas at a blogging convention with Jim Ledbetter, who just launched this website for Slate called The Big Money,

and we both kind of looked at each other and said, we should be anywhere except for

in Vegas, right? But yes, we are not going to talk about the financial crisis this week.

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