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Hello!

Welcome to the Too Big to Fail episode of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance

News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion.

I'm joined as ever by the newly empurpled, Kathy O'Neill, the blogger and data scientist from mathbabe.org.

So happy to be here.

Who has astonishingly excellent hair and cardigans this week.

Thank you. You look nice, too, Felix.

Which I'm very sad that our podcast listeners can't see your hair because it's got amazing tonality.

We have Jordan Weissman, the Moneybox columnist from Slate.

I just want to elaborate a little on Kathy's sweater, which is that right now she's wearing a merino wool cardigan that she

knitted herself in four days in like this kind of fan sunburst pattern, purple and like

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