The Chicken or the Eggs Edition

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On this episode of Slate Money, Miriam Gottfried of the Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street joins Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, to discuss the business and finance news of the week.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:

Why Yum Brands split itself in two
Should egg donation be an open market?
When should you get off the hook for student loans?

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