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Hello, and welcome to the flipping and flopping edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

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

Hi, Felix.

And, of course, Slate's Moneybox columnist, Jordan Weissman.

Hey, Felix.

So, this week, we are going to talk about President Obama,

who flip-flopped a bit on something called 529 plans.

If you don't know what a 529 plan, we are going to tell you.

There was also the FCC, which flip-flopped a little bit and suddenly decided that it really

loved the idea of a strong net neutrality.

If you don't know what strong net neutrality is, we are not going to tell you because

it's far too complicated.

So we'll muddle through that one somehow.

And finally, we will turn to the flipping, but probably not the flopping, of burgers.

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