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Until 18-plus, T's and C supply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Hello and welcome to the Payday 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, Payday Loans. When do they become usurious? That's one of my favorite words. We'll also talk about Buzzfeed's new

850 million dollar valuation and also in the world of big numbers the super high salaries of data scientists. We might have some big

numbers in the numbers round, but I am not going to tease them right now. We're losing

that bit of the show this week. Instead I'm going to

move swiftly on to introducing our regular guests. We have Kathy O'Neill, head of

the lead program for data journalism at Columbia University.

Hi Kathy.

Hi Felix.

And Slate's Own Moneybox Columnist Jordan Weisman.

Hello Felix.

Hello.

Very first before we do anything else, I think I need to have a corrections column we will move on to the mailbag in a minute

Oh no but what did I say I was me. Oh, it was me. It was me. I made a mistake mistake last week when Kathy's talked about a stick and said that a stick was a million dollars.

I said yes and then in foreign exchange a yard is a million dollars.

Of course, that was a brain fart.

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