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Hello, and welcome to the bad advice edition of Slate Money, your weekly guide to the

Business and Finance News of the Week. I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion in New York, and on the show this week, breakups, not the personal, but the corporate kind.

Then, how the history of the financial crisis is being rewritten, or at least litigated at the ongoing trial of AIG, and a personal finance question, courtesy of a dedicated listener

in the Catskills.

And, of course, at the end, our usual numbers lightning round.

I'm joined by regular guest Kathy O'Neill, data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org.

Hi, Felix. Hi, Felix.

Hi, Kathy.

And the entrepreneur, gadfly, amazing tweeter, and I'm not quite sure what else you do, and Neil Dash.

Hello, Felix.

What is your main thing these days?

These days I'm doing a startup called ThinkUp, which has been a lot of fun to be working on.

I get emails. What is it, daily?

Yeah, yeah. From ThinkUp saying, you have been favorited nine times a minute, and I'm like, wow.

Yeah. Well, that's because you're good at Twitter.

Or once every nine minutes, I think. Let's not exaggerate here.

Either one of those sounds plausible.

But start us off, Anil.

Tell us about breaking up is apparently quite easy to do these days.

Apparently it is.

One of the great things about tech is you have all kinds of behaviors that come back into fashion.

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