Hello and welcome to the big business and bailouts edition of Slate Money, your guide to the

business and finance news of the week. And yep, it's been

another one of those weeks and it's only been a few days since Wednesday when we last talked to you.

But there's a lot to catch up on. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Anna Schumansky of

breaking views. Hello. I'm here with Emily Pack of Huffpost. Hello.

And we even have a special guest. We have the CEO of BCG, so many letters in there.

Rich Lesser is going to talk to us because he is a management consultant who talks to big business the whole time.

So we're going to ask him about what on earth big business is thinking

about and going through right now. We're going to talk about the Fed and exactly what it's doing

in terms of trying to get the economy moving. We're going to talk about Amazon and what they need to

do to keep their workers safe because that will be a good example for the rest of us when every other business gets

up and running again. And we'll even have a Slate Plus segment on Ecuador because we haven't

had one of those in a while. It's a mildly gloomy show. I mean, it's a mildly gloomy time,

but I think you all like it. It's all coming up on Slate Money. So, Rich, yes, introduce yourself and tell us what

you've been up to for the past couple of weeks. So I'm Rich Lesser. I'm CEO of BCG, Boston Consulting Group.

BCG operates in 50 countries around the world is one of the leading management consulting firms

working across all industries, public sector, huge range of topics. And the news of the week is that

your clients, the big businesses in America, $454 billion of the stimulus bill is allocated basically to them. And then that's being leveraged up to

something on the order of $4 trillion by the Fed. And we're going to talk a little bit about how

that leverage works. But can you give us an indication of just how much money is $4 trillion and where is it going to go and what's it going to do?

I must tell you, if you stack them on top of each other, how many, how far a planet it can reach.

I mean, I did a little bit of back of the envelope where I was like, if you take the median wage in America, it would, four trillion dollars would pay

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