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Until 18-plus, T's and C supply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Hello and welcome to Slate Money, our weekly podcast guiding you through the

important business and finance news of the week. I am Felix Salmon of Fusion in New York and this week

we have a kind of monetizing others theme to the podcast. We'll start with

health care and the possibility that big data might be able to

predict and prevent illness. What's the privacy price we'd pay for that and would it be worth

it? Then we'll turn to Manhattan

apartments and ask whether they've become a tool for money laundering and how

General Motors is making cash payments to those killed and injured by its defective

ignition systems. And last but not least we'll wrap up with our lightning round

of the numbers that caught our attention this week.

Let me introduce our regular guest, Kathy O'Neill, the head of the lead program for

data journalism at Columbia University.

What's your number this week, Kathy?

Hi Felix, my number is hopefully the smallest number in absolute value that we're going to have on this

podcast ever.

It's 0.001. 0.00 and 1,000th.

Tantalizing.

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