Hello and welcome to the homecoming episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

Emily Peck is also here from Axios.

Hello, hello.

In the studio.

Elizabeth Spires is in the studio.

Hello.

And also in the studio we have an amazing, wonderful, brilliant, gorgeous, fabulous person.

Rana Faruha, welcome.

Thank you so much, Felix.

I love you.

Love all of you.

You're about to get annoyed at me.

We're pushing back against the thesis of your book.

At least you started well.

But before we do that, tell us, what is this book that you have out?

So the book is called Homecoming, The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global world.

And I am arguing that we are leaving the neoliberal era and entering a new world, which is going to be somewhat less global, more regional and more local.

One of my favorite journalism stories when I first started out as a trainee at

Euro Money magazine back in the 1990s was one of our star reporters, Ben Edwards, filed a piece

of copy in the first sentence was, the world is becoming increasingly global.

And we all kind of laughed at him.

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