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The Realignment

199 | Peter S. Goodman: How Billionaires Devoured the World

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The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Peter S. Goodman, author of Davos Man: How Billionaires Devoured the World and Global Economics Correspondent at The New York Times, joins The Realignment to make the case that Wall Street and tech billionaires drove the destabilization and hollowing out of the American and global economy in the lead up to the COVID-19 pandemic. Liked this (or any other episode)? Send us a tip: https://buy.stripe.com/bIYdRx0gc6qjaEEcMM Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack newsletter: https://therealignment.substack.com/ Visit our Bookshop storefront and support the show: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment

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0:00.0

Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

0:08.5

Happy Thursday everyone. Welcome back to the show.

0:11.6

Excellent episode for you today. I spoke with Peter Goodman, who is the New York Times's

0:17.2

Global Economics correspondent, about his book Davos Man, How Millionaires Devoured the World.

0:23.6

One of my favorite things that I can do is interviewers speak to guests towards the end of their

0:28.9

book tour. Peter appeared on Breaking Points. He was out of Christopher Crown Friends.

0:34.3

So, it was great to get him towards the end and really push around the ideas, around his claims,

0:40.4

around the past half century of wealth creation, how billionaires, institutions like Wall Street,

0:46.5

tech companies, specific people have either worked or conspired to cause all of the trouble.

0:53.7

Is it a really affected all of us the past few years leading up into COVID?

0:58.4

Lots of great stuff here. Super curious how the word feels. So without a due, we'll get into the

1:02.8

episode. Quick show notes for restart. One, if you enjoy this episode, I'll show my questions.

1:08.3

Send a tip. It's in the show notes. Two, it's Thursday, so the sub-stacks are coming out.

1:13.3

Three, this is a book. There is a book shop. If you purchase a book at the book shop link,

1:18.7

you will help the show get 10% of the sale and you'll help support a local independent bookseller.

1:23.9

Finally, huge thank you to Lincoln Network for supporting our work, though I'm not sure we'll

1:29.2

be soliciting any billionaires after we host this episode. Let's get into it. See you guys next time.

1:49.2

Peter Goodman, welcome to the Realignment.

1:51.7

Thanks for having me. I really enjoyed Davos Mann because you're telling anecdotes. There are

2:00.4

stories, but it's also tied to a deeper idea. But one of the parts that really made me laugh is

2:04.9

someone who conducts lots of conversations is this part of the book where you're speaking. I think

2:10.2

with Mark Benioff and he says something on the lines of, we need to have a conversation.

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