Shutdown

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Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello! Welcome to the shutdown episode of Slate Money.
0:17.0	Your guide to the Business and Finance News of The Week.
0:20.0	I'm Felix Hammond of Axios.
0:22.0	I'm here with Emily Beck of Fun Drives.
0:25.0	Hello.
0:26.0	We are incredibly blessed and happy this week because we have the one and only Adam Two's on the show.
0:34.0	Adam welcome.
0:35.0	Hi, good to be here.
0:36.5	I should say welcome back.
0:38.0	We had you on our Germany episode, which was kind of my favorite episode in Ages.
0:42.0	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?
0:51.0	It is called shutdown, how COVID
0:53.8	shook the world's economy, and it's out now.
0:56.7	We are going to talk a lot about this book,
0:59.0	because it's a great book.
1:00.2	It's a pretty definitive book
1:02.3	when it comes to talking about exactly what happened in 2020.
1:06.4	We're going to talk about the Fed, we're going to talk about China.
1:09.6	We're also going to have a segment on Afghanistan because you didn't just stop after writing this book.
1:15.3	You have kept on with all manner of projects and balls in the air.
1:18.8	I am a proud subscriber to your sub-stack, which I hope everyone checks out but you also have a
1:24.5	podcast you're launching what's that it's called ones and twos and it's going to be
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