485 - The State of Big Business: Tyler Cowen's Contrarian Economic View
The James Altucher Show
James Altucher
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🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host. |
| 0:06.4 | This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network. |
| 0:10.4 | Today on the James Altiger Show. |
| 0:15.4 | I thought I would just write down about big business, the things that no one else was saying. |
| 0:20.4 | And I wrote what I call a contrarian book which ought not to be contrarian. |
| 0:24.4 | Right. |
| 0:25.0 | What is the general stance against big business? |
| 0:29.0 | I think we're in a grumpy time period. |
| 0:31.2 | So people are upset at politicians, at Congress, somewhat at the church. |
| 0:36.2 | The media, there's a loss of faith in many institutions. |
| 0:40.0 | This is a sense that whatever is perceived as having power has to be taken down. |
| 0:44.6 | And I think big business is caught up in that. |
| 0:47.0 | We also tend to judge businesses as if they should be people or our friends. |
| 0:51.2 | And by that standard they will always disappoint us, right? |
| 0:54.0 | But if you treat it like, oh, they left me waiting on the helpline for 13 minutes. |
| 0:58.4 | That's unjust. That's outrageous. |
| 1:00.8 | You're going to hate companies which for the most part are doing you enormous amounts of good. |
| 1:04.8 | And the goal of my book is just to calmly go through the facts. |
| 1:08.0 | Right. It's very calm. |
| 1:09.2 | So what I like about your books and this one is, again, you have this different way of looking at things |
| 1:17.0 | which makes me feel calmer about all these things that people have labeled problems. |
| 1:23.2 | And yet, you know, you have a whole bag of new problems that you talk about on the podcast. |
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