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Slate Money - Arriving Today

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by author Christopher Mims to talk about his new book, Arriving Today, what’s really going on with the supply chain crisis, the logistics of how Amazon works, and the crazy story of a crypto group trying to get a copy of the U.S. Constitution at auction.   


In the Plus segment: The people you don’t think about in the supply chain.   

 

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0:00.0

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.

0:11.3

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.

0:40.0

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg.

0:44.4

Hello.

0:45.4

And Emily Peck of Fundrise?

0:48.4

Hi.

0:49.4

And wonderfully, Christopher Mims of the Wall Street Journal.

0:54.8

Chris, welcome to the show, who are you?

0:57.5

And why are you on this show?

0:59.5

I met you at a party.

1:01.6

That's why I'm here.

1:02.4

No, half true. I'm here, no, half true.

1:04.0

I'm a technology columnist, it is true.

1:07.0

I'm a technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal and I wrote a book about

1:10.0

how everything gets from the factory to your front door called arriving today and it turned out to be

1:14.1

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

1:19.2

And if you ordered that book on Amazon, it will arrive today, maybe perhaps if you have same day delivery.

1:26.4

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

1:36.6

crisis more broadly. We will talk about the Constitution Dow. We have a packed episode coming up on Sleet Money.

1:47.0

This episode is brought to you by Revolute.

1:50.0

Revolute is your perfect travel companion for all things money.

1:54.0

You can spend in over 150 currencies with great exchange rates

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