Hello and welcome to the smoke-filled rooms edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, and I am in Washington this week for a big Axios retreat.

I am joined, as ever in New York, however, by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

Hello.

And by Anna Shamansky.

Hello.

But most excitingly, because I am in Washington, I decided to phone up the one and only

Neil Irwin.

I feel like.

Neil is here in the studio in Washington with me and he is going to explain basically

everything.

This is going to be like the

Neil Irwin explains the world to us edition of Slate Money. We are going to talk about

Christine Lagarde and her new job running the European Central Bank. We are going to talk

about central banks more broadly and governments more broadly and what they should do in terms

of economic policy. This is going to be a macro heavy edition. But central banks more broadly and governments more broadly and what they should do in terms of

economic policy. This is going to be a macro heavy edition. But we are also going to talk about

the impunity of rich and powerful men in general and of Jeffrey Epstein in particular. There's a lot

to cover in this show. But first of all, we need to announce to the world that Neil has a new book out.

I do. Neil, what is your new book? And why should we read it? The book is called How to Win in a Win or Take All World. It is a guide to navigating a career in the fast-changing global economy of the 21st century, trying to apply some of these lessons from economics

to how to have a good thriving career. So if you want to make lots of money in your job,

read Neil's book, and he will tell you how to do that. If you just want to try and understand

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