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Until 18-plus, T's and C supply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. Hello and welcome to a very very special philanthropy edition of Slate Money.

Your guide normally to the business and finance news of the week,

we are going to have some newsworthy stuff from this week as well, but it's all going to be about

philanthropy. I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. Today I'm in Miami and on the

show this week we have managed to get rid of both

traveling and instead we have two incredibly special guests.

At the slate studios in New York we have Jesse Eisinger, a senior reporter at ProPublica, and he is on the show because

Jesse you recently published along with NPR a pretty stunning investigation of the American Red Cross.

Thanks for having me. Yes I did.

You did. We are going to talk about that.

And also in Stanford over in California we have Rob Reich my favorite philanthropyologist.

He's a professor of political science and is going to be talking about foundations in all manner of things.

Welcome, Rob.

Nice to be here.

So first of all, we're going to talk about the news,

then we're going to talk about foundations, then we're going to talk about

the Red Cross, and then we're going to have our numbers lightning round and even that is going to have

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