On this episode of Slate Money, Nando Vila of Fusion joins Felix Salmon (also of Fusion), Cathy O'Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate's Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann in a battle of wits to discuss:
 
Student loan debt (and whether we should do away with it all together)
Neel Kashkari, the new president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve
An alarming statistic which shows that death rates for middle age white Americas have been rising over the last fifteen years
 
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