Anand Giridharadas on the Financial Crisis, Covid and the State of Democracy

Masters in Business

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All, The True American and India Calling. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times, he has also written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic and Time, and is the publisher of the newsletter The.Ink. He is also a political analyst for MSNBC. He has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.

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0:29.0	This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholz on Bloomberg Radio.
0:39.0	My extra special guest this week is Anand Gurdadas. He is the best-selling
0:44.4	author of four separate books. Previously he was a foreign
0:48.2	correspondent and columnist for the New York Times. He has published at the New Yorker The Atlantic Time magazine. He is an on-air political analyst for MS NBC and a publisher of the newsletter, The Inc.
1:03.2	His previous book, Winners Take All, was a bestseller.
1:07.7	His new book, The Persuaders at the front lines of the fight for the hearts and minds of democracy is out now.
1:15.2	Anand, welcome to Bloomberg.
1:17.3	Thank you so much for having me.
1:18.6	Well, I've been following your work for a while and I'm really excited to talk to you about both the new book and
1:24.1	some of the articles you've published recently but let's start out a little bit
1:28.5	with your background because you've been in journalism for a few decades now but
1:32.3	you began as a business analyst
1:34.4	from McKinsey I mean that's about as establishment as it gets what was the
1:38.9	career plan you know I actually knew exactly what I wanted to do from a pretty young age which is what I'm doing now which is writing and being a journalist.
1:48.5	I figured it out first semester my sophomore year of high school.
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