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

Although this year it's basically the news of the century because there's one huge thing which has driven the big boom of the 2000s, which has intimately run our lives for basically

ever since the day we were born. And we have today the world's most incredibly special

guests to talk about it, which I will talk about in the minute. We are also, of course, joined

by Kathy O'Neill, the blogger and data scientist. Hi, Felix. Hello, Kathy. And hi, special guest, who I can't name. We're really, like, it's in the show notes, so why we're trying to pretend to this is a secret. I have no idea. We also have Jordan Wiseman, the Moneybox columnist at Slate.

Felix, you've seen people read the show notes.

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