Hello and welcome to the special Econ 101 edition of Slate Money, the first edition of 2015 and possibly the best edition of 2015, because this is going to be awesome pants, as the millennials might say.

No, wait, no millennials ever said awesome pants.

No, no.

We have a letter actually here this week from Nathan Connolly, who wrote in to SlateMoney at Slate.com.

Never let it be said that we ignore our letters.

We're devoting the entire episode to Nathan's letter.

And Nathan says at the very top of his letter, being a millennial, I appreciate having Jordan's opinion.

It's about time.

Our generation's voice makes its way into the discourse.

Jordan, how do you feel about representing all millennials on this podcast?

It's a validation of everything I have

spent my many months on this show doing. So what we are going to do in this podcast is not,

as we normally do, guide you through the business and finance news of the week, because frankly,

not much happens in that week between Christmas and New Year's.

So we are going to answer Nathan's question instead, partly because it's a really good question.

But first, well, I guess we've already introduced our resident millennial, Jordan Weissman.

I should also introduce Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org.

Hi, Felix.

Hi, Kathy.

Are you excited about this one, too?

I'm super excited.

Okay.

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