Hello and welcome to the Nurd Egot edition of Sleep Money,

your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Simon of Axios, and the Shimansky is here from

breaking views. Hello. Emily Peck is here from Huffpost. Hello. We are

going to be talking about the first person ever to probably, we don't know for sure, probably.

Phil, all three of the top economic roles in the country. It's the economic equivalent of the Egot.

We will talk about that person. You can probably guess who that is. We are going to talk about

a monopolistic merger, or it looks very much like a monopolistic

merger in the world of book publishing and I need to ask you do you prefer

random Penguin or Penguin House I don don't know. I still haven't worked out which one of those two is better.

Of course neither of them actually exist. It's called Penguin Random House. They are merging with Simon and Schuster.

We are also going to talk about philanthropy and the United

Way. It's giving Tuesday on Tuesday, please give lots of money to wonderful causes.

We're not sure about the United Way though there's a little bit of a

scandal there which Emily has written about at great length so read that story. We have a slate

plus on Brexit.

And before we get there, I need to remind you

that we also have a Slate Money Live show on Wednesday,

so tune in for that.

All that coming up on slate money.

So the big story of the week is obviously Janet Yellen, the nerd egot, as I put it on Twitter, the first person ever to be chair of the Council

of Economic Advisors and chair of the Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary, which makes her much more rare than any

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