Hello and welcome to the end of the world as we know it edition of Slate Money your guide to the business and finance news of what

turns out to have been a pretty packed week of business and

finance news. I'm Felix salmon of Axios and of South London which was the last holdout in the British election that

actually voted Labour virtually everywhere else in the UK managed to vote Tory

it seemed except for Scotland which went in a landslide for the

Scottish nationalists we're going to talk about that of course we are going to talk

about the end of the WTO which is a story I covered in my newsletter this week, Exios Edge, but which I feel

hasn't got enough attention because it's a pretty big deal.

We're going to talk about other trade related stuff. We're going to talk about Paul Volker, rest in peace.

What else we can talk about Emily?

We are going to talk about when a suitcase company is more than a suitcase company.

Emily Peck of Huffington Post is going to delve into the gender dynamics of

away suitcases, which apparently is a thing.

Who knew that a suitcase could have gender dynamics, but it does.

And Anna Schmanski of Breaking Views is here and you are going to basically be the trade nerd.

I guess.

I'm the one who's like,'s talk about all the boring things.

All of that coming up on slate money.

So everything's falling apart Felix, huh?

Everything is falling apart.

I had this thing in my newsletter was like about the Treaty of West Failure,

which I kind of like liked as a frame, which is basically 1648 when nation states really became a thing.

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