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Hello, and welcome to Slate Money, our weekly podcast, dissecting the world of business and

finance. I'm Felix Salmon, the senior editor at Fusion, here in New York, with Jordan

Weissman and Kathy O'Neill. We're coming to them in a second,

but I have to give you a teaser about what's coming up. We have the biggest, most important

finance book of the week. Stress Test by Tim Geithner. We all read it, or at least a few pages

of it. It's very big. We're also going to talk about

Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, and the fact that she's not going to be giving this commencement

speech at Smith College this week. And we're also going to be talking about another bit of the

education world, which is student loans

and the fact that they seem to be very good at stopping people from buying houses.

And at the end, as ever, we will have our lightning numbers round.

I know that Kathy's number is 72.

I don't know if that's a reference to the number of hours in three days

or what we're about to find out. So let me introduce her, Kathy, the former hedge fund quant,

who's now a watchdog of all things Tim Geithner related. Welcome.

Hi, Felix. And of course, Jordan Weissman, known to the entire world is the Moneybox columnist

at Slate.

The entire world.

The entire world.

But first, before we talk about Tim Geithner or Christine Legerard or anything else, we have

an update on last week's podcast where we talked about the planned IPO of the Chinese company

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