Slate Money - It’s Finally Infrastructure Week
Slate Money
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🗓️ 3 April 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Writer and former host of Studio 360, Kurt Andersen, joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about Biden’s long awaited and much needed infrastructure plan, the Archegos dustup on Wall Street and the union vote at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
In the Plus segment: Post-pandemic Broadway.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the It's finally infrastructure week episode of Slate Money, |
| 0:18.6 | your guide to the business and finance news of Infrastructure Week. |
| 0:23.0 | It was the week that Joe Biden came out with a $2.something trillion dollar infrastructure plan. |
| 0:29.7 | I've seen $2 trillion, I've seen $2.25 trillion, I've seen $2.8 trillion. |
| 0:33.2 | Anyway, it's a lot of trillions. |
| 0:34.7 | We're going to talk about where those trillions are going to go if the plan gets passed. |
| 0:39.7 | We're going to talk about unionization and Amazon in Alabama. |
| 0:44.8 | We're going to talk about Arcagos, the family office, don't call it a hedge fund, that blew up spectacularly and whether that's a systemic risk. |
| 0:53.6 | We have a slate plus on... blew up spectacularly and whether that's a systemic risk. |
| 1:02.8 | We have a slate plus on Broadway because we have a very special guest this week. |
| 1:08.7 | I have to say, not only am I, Felix Hamilton of Axios, and not only is Emily Peck here, |
| 1:15.2 | but this week is a particularly frabious week because we are joined by Kurt Anderson. Kurt, hello. Welcome. Oh, Felix and Emily. I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:24.7 | And we've been talking about this me getting to come on for a while and so picked this random week. |
| 1:30.2 | And here this random week turns out to be, A, the beginning of the New New Deal, and B, the beginning of the New Deal in another way with a potential epic unionization story. |
| 1:41.5 | And Broadway, which is also sort of 30s life. So it all worked out perfectly. |
| 1:46.7 | Everything old is new again. But for those of us, for the one and a half listeners, Kurt, who don't |
| 1:52.8 | know who you are, you really do need no introduction. Tell us, who are you? Oh, I'm a writer. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm a writer who used to have a radio show called Studio 360. I write novels. I help start Spy Magazine. I used to write for The New Yorker. In addition to the novels I've written, I've lately pretended to be a historian. And my most recent pretend history book is called Evil Geniuses, The Unmaking of America, which is about how around 40 years ago and |
| 2:20.8 | earlier, the economic right and big business decided to roll back the new deal into the world |
| 2:27.0 | in which we now live. |
| 2:28.5 | Makes you a perfect guest for Slate Money. |
| 2:31.1 | It's all coming up after this. |
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