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Until 18-plus, T's and C supply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Hello and welcome to Slate Money the Regional episode of our weekly

podcast guiding you through the important business and finance news of the week. I'm

Felix Salmon of Fusion in New York but I am a proud graduate of Glasgow University

and we are going to be talking about Scotland this week and

whether it will become independent. Would that be an economic disaster? We will

also talk about the possible unintended consequences of a new

federal banking regulation. Will it hurt infrastructure investment? And we will do a

podcastly look at my interactive game up on fusion.net

about lifetime earnings and the benefits of going to college.

And finally we will do our usual numbers round. Let me introduce

our regular guests. We have Kathy O'Neill, head of the lead program for

data journalism at Columbia University. What's your number, Kathy?

Hi Felix, my number is one-fourth. And Jordan Weisman, Slate's Moneybox columnist,

how are you feeling on the numbers front?

I'm feeling well and I'm feeling like my number's going to be 349.

I think I know what that is.

My number is 12 billion and with that we are going to hand it over to Jordan Weisman to tell us everything we need to know in 30 seconds or less about Scotland.

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