Hello and welcome to the powerful and the damned episode of Slate Money your guide to the

Business and Finance News of the Week. I'm Felix I'm one of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of

Huffpost. Hello. I'm here with Anna Shimanski of Breakinging Views.

Hello. And we are here with Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial Times.

Lionel, welcome. You have a new book out. What is it? Tell us all about it. Hello Felix, good to be with this distinguished

group. The book is Private Diaries of my time as editor, 2005 to 20, and it's up close and personal with people of power in politics,

business and finance from Silicon Valley through to Beijing via Moscow with Putin and some British politicians like David Cameron

one of the biggest failures of the 21st century. This is one thing we can

definitely agree on here at slate money is that David Cameron was terrible. We are going to talk a little bit about him and other powerful men and the occasional powerful women.

We're going to talk about the media and whether it's important for news

organizations to make a profit. We are going to have a whole slate plus segment

about Nick Clegg, who is a UK politician turned Facebook spin doctor.

We are going to drop some news about Anna Shimanski.

This is coming up at the end of the episode.

So stay tuned, a end of the episode. So stay tuned.

A jam-packed episode coming up on Slate Money.

This book was really interesting to read as the fun notes of a journalist up close to the seat of power in so many different ways

over such a long period and you got to meet with so many powerful people.

Most of them seemed like they were men and you had these like really close

relationships it seemed like with some of them.

And I was kind of curious how you thought about navigating those relationships as a journalist.

Like on the one hand you want to be close to these very powerful men, you know, head of Central Banks, David Cameron. on the other hand you want to hold them to

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