Slate Money is sponsored by Citrix GoToMeeting. When meetings matter, millions choose GoToMeeting. Hold a meeting with anyone from the convenience of your computer, smartphone, or tablet, and get a free day trial by visiting go-tomeeting.com and clicking the try-it-it-free button.

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

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

Hi, Felix.

And Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissman.

Hello, Felix.

Hello, Kathy and Jordan.

But I'm going to put you two to one side because we have the one and only Andy Bowers.

You hear Andy Bowers' name every single time you listen to this podcast if you listen

all the way to the end, because I say at the end of the show, and the executive producer of all

of Slate's podcasts is Andy Bowers, except for now he's got an even bigger job. We're going to talk to him

about that, as well as we're going to talk about students at for-profit colleges going

on Debt Strike and Nimbys in Mountain View. But Andy is here. So I want to start with you.

Tell us a little bit about yourself, because this is something I've just learned and I didn't

realize. You are a longstanding radio person.

You're saying I'm old, Felix.

Well, you are an old as well.

I like being around Andy because he's even older than I am.

Actually, you're all so old.

I can't even differentiate.

I'm like age blind.

So Andy started in like the 18th century sometime at NPR.

...