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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,-ups 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 cat skills.

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 math math babe dot org.

Hi Felix.

Hi Kathy and the entrepreneur Gadfly amazing tweeter and I'm not quite

what else you do and Neil Dash.

Hello Felix.

What's your what is your main thing these days?

These days I'm doing a startup called Think Up

which has been a lot of fun to be working on.

I get emails what is it daily? Yeah, from think up saying you have been

favored nine times a minute and I'm like, wow. Yeah, well that's because you're good at

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