Chris Arnade on the Mexican Crisis, TARP, and American Poverty

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🗓️ 17 October 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Chris Arnade, former Wall Street trader turned photographer and social chronicler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what he learned from the front lines of the financial industry in the 1990s and 2000s when everything slowly and then very quickly began to fall apart. He also discusses his transition into observer and photographer of drug addicts, the poor, and the forgotten parts of America.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:09.3	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.8	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.9	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:22.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:26.1	back to 2006.
0:28.3	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.4	Today is September 8th, 2016, and my guest is Chris Arnaudy.
0:38.2	He holds a PhD in Physics and was a trader on Wall Street for 20 years.
0:42.6	In 2012, he left Wall Street to photograph people and to explore the lives of some folks
0:47.9	and forgotten corners of America and to write about them, drug addicts, the poor, and others.
0:53.3	And he writes thoughtfully on Twitter and elsewhere, and we'll link to that.
0:56.9	Chris, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:58.9	Thanks for having me.
1:00.5	What we're going to talk about today is your revolution from trader to photographer and
1:05.5	what you learned along the way.
1:07.0	And of course, you were in front of receipt for some important moments of American financial
1:12.3	history in the recent decades.
1:15.8	And now you're in front of receipt of a place where there aren't that many people seated,
1:19.8	which is the people exploring the lives of folks who are struggling in American in particular
1:24.9	ways.
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