Planet Money book club

Planet Money

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🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Behind every Planet Money episode is a ton of reading. Today, we share some of our favorite books from along the way.

Here are our picks:

From Mary, American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation by Sarah L. Quinn

From Erika, The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression by Harold James

From Alexi, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.4	Hello and welcome to Planet Money, America Baris.
0:08.6	I'm Mary Childs.
0:09.6	And I'm Alexi Horowitz-Gazzy.
0:11.6	Okay, so today on the show, we're going to give our listeners a little peek behind the
0:15.4	curtain.
0:16.4	Every time you hear an episode in our feed, that is often just the tiniest tip of the
0:21.4	iceberg of all the stuff we've been researching and reading and thinking about that doesn't
0:26.6	ever make it into the podcast.
0:28.6	Full books worth of fascinating tidbits just lost to the cutting room floor.
0:33.5	And you know, like some of those ideas do make their way into our meetings or through
0:37.9	the slack channels, but then they just kind of end there.
0:42.6	So we thought why not let our listeners in on our unofficial book club.
0:47.2	Planet Money Book Club.
0:48.2	Ta-da!
0:49.2	Tana!
0:50.2	Books!
0:51.2	Planet Literacy.
0:52.2	Alright, we're each going to share a book, we're reading, and why we think it's fascinating.
1:10.3	Everything we're going to talk about will be linked in the notes of this episode.
1:13.1	Alright, Mary, you are up first.
1:16.0	Okay, here we go.
	...

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