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Hello and welcome to the some of my best friends are Petroleum Engineers edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion. I'm joined by Anna Shamansky.

Hello.

And in a wonderful piece of transatlantic ledger domain, we are magically joined from across the pond by the one and only Tim Harford.

Hello, Felix.

Hello, Tim.

And hello, Anna.

Hello.

Now, in terms of long-time listeners to Slate Money will know Tim,

because this is not the first time you have been on this show.

In fact, you are on this show more or less exactly a year ago.

Yeah, and we were talking about a new book of mine, which is always a good

thing to talk about. And we were also talking about the Nobel Prize in Economics. And surprise,

surprise, you know, what goes around comes around. So is this your, is this what you do, Tim?

Is you publish a book whenever there is a new Nobel Prize in economics?

It seems to work out that way. And it gives me an excuse to come on Slate Money, so why not? Why not? It's working. I need to get writing if I'm going to catch up with next year's prize. So what book are you going to publish in time for next year's prize? I want to know now. Yeah, I'd better start writing, hadn't I? You're literally not writing a book. I don't think I've ever met you when you're not writing a book. I'm writing a book, but, you know, it's a secret. So it's all too early, all too early. And it certainly won't be out next. We, you know what? We should talk about the book that's out now. We should. Yes. We are going to talk about the book that's out now.

We are going to talk about...

Because this is all transatlantic, we're going to talk about Brexit.

Because there is things going on on the Brexit front.

And, yeah, we should just talk about the whole England versus America thing,

because it does strike me. I woke up at 445 this morning to get on a plane in Houston,

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