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Hello!

And welcome to The Force is with Janet Yellen edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance and cinema news of the week.

Indeed.

I am Felix Sam on the Fusion. I am joined, as always, by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org.

I am so glad to be here.

We are, this is basically the Felix and Kathy show.

We are joined by the hollow husk of Jordan Weissman.

The hollow husk of Jordan Weissman is presently recovering from Slate's holiday party, but we'll do his best to participate.

His voice is like an octave lower than usual.

Well, you know, I've got a sexy grow going this morning. Come on.

And Jordan, if he is still alive by the end of the show, is going to talk about the meltdown in the junk bond market, which is kind of fascinating. And finally, it's been, you know, a good couple of years. Well, how long has this show been going about a year and a half? It's certainly more than a year. Over a year. It's been over a year. And we've been pushing off and pushing off and pushing off talk of like interest rate hikes because we were just waiting for it to happen. And it has happened. So now we get to talk about interest rate hikes. But first, we have to do this because otherwise Kathy said that she would quit. And cry very much. And cry very much. And you don't want to see Kathy when she cries. No, it's sad. Kathy, what is the single most important news event of the past 50 years? 50 years. Okay, well, I'm not, okay. No, I will go that far. God damn it. Star Wars, the Force Awakens, opens this week. It's already opened, actually. Have you seen it? I have not. So there's no spoilers on the show. This is a spoiler-free show. It's like the seventh episode of this movie franchise.

Yeah, that's if you don't count the animated movie that came out.

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