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 Schmansky hello but most excitingly because I am in

Washington I decided to phone up the one and only

Neil Irwin I feel it. Neil is here in the studio in Washington with me and he is going

to explain basically everything this is going to explain basically everything.

This is going to be like that Neil Erwin 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 addition 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 winner-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

what is going on in the economy, then that you're in luck is all coming up on this episode of

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