Hello and welcome to the homecoming episode of Slate Money. Your guide to the

Business and Minas news of the week, I'm Felix Hammond of Axios.

Emily Peck is also here from Axios.

Hello, hello.

In the studio.

And the Spires is in the studio.

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

Rana Ferruha, welcome.

Thank you so much Felix, I love you.

I love all of you. You're about to get annoyed at me.

They're pushing back against the thesis of your book. 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 Euromoney magazine back in the 1990s

was one of our star reporters Ben Edwards filed a piece of copy and the first sentence was the world is becoming

increasingly global. And we all kind of laughed at him but now I feel like your

thesis is that the world is becoming

decreasing global.

Decree, it is. The world is not flat.

So we're going to talk about the unflatness and decreasing the global nature of the world.

We're going to talk about rare earths, pharmaceuticals, China, Africa. It's a glorious conversation, you're going to love it and we also have a

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