Hello and welcome to money talks from Slate Money. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios and this is our series of interviews with amazing and fascinating and brilliant

and awesome people. And we have exactly one such person here today. Teresa Giladucci, welcome.

Hello. Thanks a lot. We are going to talk to you about retirement. This is the subject of,

well, not just your new book, but basically your entire career.

You are the world's leading expert on all things, retirement.

So this is what we're going to be talking about.

But first, yeah, introduce yourself.

I'm Teresa Gilarduci, and I'm an economist at the New School for Social Research.

Came from UC Berkeley, taught at the University

of Notre Dame, which is a football team with a university attached, and now at the new school

in Greenwich Village, New York City. So, yeah, we're going to be talking all about how retirement

is broken in the United States and how we, you and I single-handedly are going to

fix it. It's all coming up on Money Talks. Okay, so I feel like instead of starting off with

a Felix question, I'm going to start off with a Brett Klamant's question.

Brett is a Slate Money listener who wrote in, out of the blue, saying he's been listening to the show

for a decade, and he's never heard a segment about retirement in Japan. And they have, how does it

work when they have an average retirement age and they live very long?

We know this about the Japanese.

And like, can we learn from Japan here in America?

Well, Japan kind of took over a lot of American institutions and ideas and frameworks after World War II.

And so Japan and the United States stand out from all the other OECD countries,

the ones that we think of as our peers in the G20, G7,

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