Slate Money - Shutdown
Slate Money
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🗓️ 11 September 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Historian and author Adam Tooze joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about his new book Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy and his Substack piece on the sanctions on Afghanistan.
In the Plus segment: Lessons from the COVID-19 crisis.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the shutdown episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I'm here |
| 0:22.4 | with Emily Beck of Fundrise. Hello. We are incredibly blessed and happy this week because we have |
| 0:31.7 | the one and only Adam twos on the show. Adam, welcome. Hi. Good to be here. I should say welcome back. We had you on our Germany |
| 0:39.1 | episode, which was kind of my favorite episode in ages. I loved that so much. And we have invited you back and you were like, well, can I come back when I have a book to plug? And we're like, of course you can come back when you have a book to plug. So what is your book? It is called shutdown how COVID shook the Shook the World's Economy, and it's out now. |
| 0:56.7 | We are going to talk a lot about this book because it's a great book. |
| 1:00.2 | It's a pretty definitive book when it comes to talking about exactly what happened in 2020. |
| 1:06.5 | We're going to talk about the Fed. |
| 1:07.8 | We're going to talk about China. |
| 1:09.5 | We're also going to have a segment on |
| 1:11.0 | Afghanistan because you didn't just stop after writing this book. You have kept on with all |
| 1:16.9 | manner of projects and bulls in the air. I am a proud subscriber to your substack, which I hope |
| 1:22.2 | everyone checks out. But you also have a podcast you're launching. What's that? |
| 1:26.5 | It's called ones and twos, and it's |
| 1:28.7 | going to be backed by foreign policy, and we're going to be every week discussing two numbers |
| 1:35.5 | that help us map the world. I gather that's a segment that you guys love, too. Oh, I love that. |
| 1:41.5 | We know nothing about numbers rounds. I'm so glad that the numbers round has spread to the ivory towers of foreign policy. |
| 1:48.6 | So, yeah, ones and twos coming out. |
| 1:50.5 | And Adam twos, I guess we should drop your affiliation in the same way of Columbia, a Columbia historian. |
| 1:57.3 | Coming up on Slate Money. |
| 2:07.4 | So, Adam, you have published the definitive pandemic book before the pandemic is even over. I'm not quite sure how that's even possible. What would you say is like |
| 2:12.8 | the main message of this book? What's the big takeaway that people should leave with after having read it? |
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