749 - David Rubenstein (Part 1): Did The American Experiment Fail?

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🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Is America still as great as it once was? And how the modern technologies have changed the county's development and politics? In this episode, I am joined by David Rubenstein, former government official, and lawyer, who is a co-founder and co-executive chairman of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, author, to talk about his new book, The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream. In this part 1 (of 2), we talked about the politics, the economy, and how we as Americans fair against China in a technological race! My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.1	David Rubenstein is a man that wears many hats.
0:19.7	First off, he's a multi-multi-billionaire and an incredible philanthropist.
0:24.1	He's donated to so many different organizations.
0:27.0	It's hard to describe them all.
0:28.5	He's the head of the Carlisle Group, which is a private equity group that has around
0:32.6	a half a trillion dollars.
0:33.6	I don't even know how much.
0:35.1	But the subject of this podcast is his book, The American Experiment.
0:39.9	He interviewed everybody from great historians to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor,
0:45.6	to athletes like Billie Jean King, to former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, to
0:49.9	documentarian Ken Burns, to historian Walter Isaacson.
0:55.4	Every single chapter in this book, and there's chapters about the Civil War, chapters about
0:59.0	Native American history, chapters about the presidential election of 2020.
1:03.4	I learned something in every single chapter.
1:06.1	Plus, we spend a lot of time talking about, given the lessons from history, what is going
1:10.3	to happen in the future with all this money stimulus printing and COVID and recent events
1:17.2	in Afghanistan?
1:18.9	Not only is David Corsair's story, but he has so much influence on the financial system.
1:23.4	It's really fascinating to hear his answers.
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