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Hello and welcome to the technical difficulties edition of Slate Money.

If you can manage to make it to the end of this edition without her stuttering out, you are probably doing quite well.

Slate Money, as you know, is your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

As you know, I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion.

As you know, I have the Kathy O'Neill here from mathbabe.org.

Hi, Felix.

And Slate's Moneybox columnist, Jordan Weissman.

Hello, Felix.

But what you don't know until right now, because I'm going to tell you is what are we going to talk about?

We are talking about stocks in China.

They kind of fell off a cliff.

That was fun.

If you were a reporter, you get to write crazy headlines about of fell off a cliff. That was fun. If you were a reporter, you get to write

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