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The James Altucher Show

750 - David Rubenstein (Part 2): The American Experiment: The Future

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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 2 (of 2), we talked about why people lost trust in the government(s), what are his prediction for the future for America, capitalism, why did he not invest in Amazon in the early days, and what other investments has he passed on! 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 ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:07.4

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:13.4

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:16.5

We released part one and part two on the same day.

0:18.6

Part one David talked about the American experiment and what's the DNA of America in part

0:25.1

two.

0:26.1

We talked about not only what is in store for the future of America, but among many other

0:30.5

things.

0:31.5

Why didn't David invest in Amazon?

0:42.3

You know, going back to the book, you list these genes and these ideals by which America

0:49.7

started.

0:50.7

Again, it's exemplified by the Declaration of Independence.

0:53.9

All men are created equal where the right to pursue, you know, happiness, all these things.

0:59.9

Obviously, the history of America often differs from these ideals.

1:05.7

There was the punishment of Native Americans.

1:09.1

There was slavery.

1:10.7

There was maybe unjust wars.

1:14.3

I guess I have two questions.

1:15.7

One is how do we bring these concepts together?

1:19.5

Why did we divert so much from our ideals?

1:23.3

And then the second question would be how do we rectify this fact that some of our

1:29.1

heroes from the past in casting a different light are often very villainous?

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