Quick update after we recorded this show, Ken Griffin, the hedge fund billionaire came out

and announced that he was the person who had bought and guaranteed the Constitution.

Of course, he knew how to outbid some unruly group of 17,000 crypto people.

Hello! And welcome to the arriving today episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business

and finance news of the week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Stacey Marie

Ishmael of Bloomberg. Hello! And Emily Peck of Fundrise. Hi! And wonderfully, Christopher

Memnes of the Wall Street Journal. Chris, welcome to the show. Who are you and why you want

this show? I met you at a party. That's why I'm here. No, I'm a technology columnist. It's true.

I'm a technology columnist, the Wall Street Journal, and I wrote a book about how everything

gets from the factory to your front door called arriving today. And it turned out to be oddly

timely because supply chains I wrote about all broke down just as it was coming out. And if you

ordered that book on Amazon, it will arrive today. Maybe perhaps if you have same day delivery. It's

kind of an amazing phenomenon. We will unpack that. We will unpack the Amazon logistics machine.

We will talk about the supply chain crisis more broadly. We will talk about the Constitution

Dow. We have a packed episode coming up on sleep money. And let's jump into the book, Chris. What

is this book you have written? I set out to write an explainer of how everything gets from the

factory to our front door. And I manifested a global pandemic and supply chain crisis during

the reporting of the book to the point that the starting point of the book is actually a port

in Vietnam. And when I was actually standing at the port in Vietnam, that was like the day or the

day before the World Health Organization announced that there was a pandemic brewing in Wuhan.

And then I ended up following everything. And the pandemic as we as we all know has broken

supply chains globally and has caused shortages and inflation and chaos. And I'm sure that somehow

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