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Hello!

And welcome to the filthy dirty loans edition of Slate Money,

your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. I am joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at

math babe.org. Hello. Hello and of course Slate's moneybox

colonist Jordan Weisman.

Hello Felix.

This week we are going to be talking about hedge fund investors profiting by financing surgeries for desperate women.

This is a fascinating story. We are also going to talk about the saga of Atlantic City, which means we are going to talk about the Donald.

So you are going to want to listen to that one because frankly who hasn't got an infinite amount of appetite for Donald's content.

No one can stop.

But first, Kathy, yeah.

Is it true that Facebook is going into lending or having something to do with lending?

Well, yes, I mean, Facebook's not going to go into lending directly.

Facebook is going to sell a product to people who want to lend to people.

And what is this product?

They're going to basically let people have a view into a given person's network to see whether the people who

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