Hello and welcome to money talks from Slate Money, the show where we talk to the most interesting people in the world about the most interesting things

that have ever happened. I am Felix Salmon of Bloomberg. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires,

who writes to the New York Times, Normandra of other places. Hello. And this week, we have

the one and only Andrew Ross Sorkin. Andrew, welcome. Thank you for having me. I'm not a total first time

call or long time listener because I think I've been on this show, but it was a long time ago. It's been a minute. That's what the kids say. I feel like we may have had you on to Slate Money goes to the movies years ago, or we may not. We may have just had you on to talk about news. Because you have this day job, right?

You do cover the news?

I do.

That's part of the gig.

You run this thing called Deal Book at the New York Times, and you're also on the telly. On the two, as they say. This is all legacy media, folks. It's all legacy media. But now this is the real news of the day. You are being dragged, kicking and screaming into the 21st century, which, and there's

this amazing new technology that we have in 2025 called The Book.

So you've decided to write a book.

Right.

Just when people's attention span has got into the TikTok era, I've decided to go hard

at the book.

Yes.

You are rocking like it's 1675.

Ever the contrarian. And your idea of high tech is to write, how many pages is this book?

Like 400 and some? I think with the end notes, it gets closer to 600, but it's a beach read, folks.

It's a beach read. Does that mean I don't need to pick it up until late June?

No, it just means that you're going to have a hell of a time flipping the pages and you're not going to be able to go to sleep. It's a page turner is what it means. It was described as spellbinding in the blurbs. Someone in the blurb called it spellbinding. So we ought to talk about the book. What is it called, Andrew?

The book is called 1929, and it's the story of what ultimately happened in the financial crash and

ultimately what turned into the Great Depression. And for me, it was really an effort to tell it a little bit

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