Hello and welcome to the nerd egot edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and

finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, and the Shemansky 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, probably fill 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'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 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 lengths.

So read that story.

We have a Slate Plus on Brexit.

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