Hello, I'm Dr. Steven Hassan with another episode of the Influence Continuum.

And I've been waiting to interview my next guest for years, and I'm so grateful.

Christopher Leonard is a business reporter who has been published in the Washington Post,

Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, Bloomberg, and is the author of three books. The most recent,

Christopher is the Lords of Easy Money, How how the Federal Reserve broke the American economy,

and prior to that Coke land, the secret history of the Coke Industries and Corporate Power in America,

which will be the focus of our time together. And prior to that, you wrote the meat racket,

the secret takeover of America's food business.

And all I can say is that reading Coke land, and I have the book, I bought the book, I wanted to read it and study it.

This is a contribution to humanity, in my opinion, and especially in this time of

global climate crisis, the Cokes have had an especial role in my opinion of putting out disinformation, distracting, as well as, you know, themselves as you

documented in your book, taking advantage of indigenous resources and trying to undercut

government regulations to clean up things.

There's so many aspects.

But I'm so grateful to you for writing this volume.

And so can we start by saying,

what got you interested in doing a book on the Cokes

and the corporate entity that it is?

Yeah, yeah, you bet.

And thank you so much for having me on and for the introduction.

I really, really appreciate it.

It's great to be able to talk about this.

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