Hello and welcome to Money Talks from Slate Money. I'm Felix Sammon 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. Theresa Gila Duchy, welcome.

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

subject of what 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 Theresa Larducci 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 the

university attached and and now at the New School in Greenwich, New York City.

So yeah, we're going to be talking all about how a 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

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Brett is a slave 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

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