There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

That's why we launched The Big Take.

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

to give you some space to think.

I'm Wes Kosova.

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast I have a special guest.

His name is David Enrich and he is the finance editor at The New York Times.

Previously he was a journalist at the Wall Street Journal.

Last time we spoke with David it was when his new book The Spider Network came out that

was back in 2018 all about LIBOR manipulation.

His new book is Dark Towers.

It's all about Deutsche Bank and how it was once a sleepy backwater German bank.

They also helped fund the Holocaust and the Nazi war machine.

But how they ended up having global aspirations in the 90s and 2000s, briefly becoming the

biggest bank in the world before an epic collapse.

David is a really interesting investigative journalist.

He does a wonderful job fleshing out the characters in his book who are all real people.

This isn't fiction.

He is telling a story about what happens, how it happens, and why.

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