kailey: for more on this week's issue -- jason: joel weber is here. talk to us about the cover. joel: the story is about ashlee vance and this effort to archive code in a vault in the swedish arctic. it is sort of an incredible one, because maybe you have heard about this seed vault, about the worst-case scenario, the world as we know it comes to an end, at least there are seeds you can plant. right next to the seed vault is a code vault. kailey: talk about why this is important. joel: earlier this year, microsoft bought github. they are based on this idea of open source. open source has been around for years, and it is ultimately this thing that powers a lot of the things we use, even from little parts in your car are built on open source code. the thinking is that stuff is maybe the most powerful code in the world. let's make sure there is a backup for it. jason: i've got to ask you about the rag story. joel: one of my favorites. we love these stories that are often about things hidden in plain sight that we take for granted. take the rag, the humble rag. there is a modest indu

jason: here is joel weber on the issue. let's start by talking about trains. a big travel week. ybe some people taking a train, flying, but amtrak is in a bit of a pickle. joel: amtrak has been a money loser for years. it has a new ceo who came from the airline industry, and they talked about his plan. a lot of people who are amtrak fans don't really like this plan of his. but it could be amtrak to be profitable. carol: delays. never on time, right? jason: it is richard anderson, the former ceo of delta, not making a lot of friends out there. maybe some people making friends or at least feeling better about the economy is almost everyone. peter coy talks about this 180 folks have done looking at the economy. joel: just a couple months ago, it was like rain clouds out. now it is winter, and suddenly the sky seems to be opening up and everybody is like, it does not seem to be so bad. a crazy time for the economy. at the background of this is the trade war. if there is any sort of resolution, even a phase i deal, you might think markets would pop on that. carol: your cover story, ta

carol: let's get into it with editor joel weber. here to tell us all about it. it is a great issue and another must-read. joel: it is real easy to talk about the news and the short-term stuff but there are bigger issues that are really going to define what the future looks like. that is what the new economy issue is really about. the world's growth will come from the emerging economies rather than the developed ones. that is something hank paulson hits on. the problems this issue is devoted to and the solution we hoped to really identify at the forum in november are really geared towards solving problems in the emerging markets. jason: how do you break that down into something that is digestible? a lot of help on this one, including from bloomberg economics. joel: we actually divide the book up into chapters. it feels more like a book than any other issue that we do. those chapters aligned with the pillars of the forum. things like trade. that allows us to talk to tom orlik of bloomberg economics who came up with this drivers and disruptors idea to really rank co