The Surreal Business of War: A Reporter's Account of the Russian Economy in Chaos

Afford Anything

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Business, Investing

4.6 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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#450: On the First Friday of each month, we roll out a bonus episode that’s totally different from what we usually produce. These bonus episodes are special, unique, and – we hope – round out a fuller, more multifaceted picture of what we think about. Today, I’m introducing you to a business and economics correspondent from Moscow who I’m honored to call a close friend. Her name is Andrea Palasciano. She’s covered business stories from Paris, Marseilles, Rome and Moscow. She’s fluent in Italian, German, Spanish, French, English and Russian. She’s covered stories ranging from diamond mining in Siberia to sleep deprivation. She’s close friends with Evan Gershkovich, the 31-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who’s currently in a Russian prison. Today is his 100th day behind bars. Andrea and I were both Knight-Bagehot Fellows and bonded during our year of immersing ourselves into deeply understanding how to tell better stories about business and economics. She joins me in this special episode to talk about the stories she’s covered, the sabbatical experience, and why it’s critical to understand how a bond works (!!). Enjoy! For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode450 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So on the first Friday of every month we do a totally different episode from our norm.
0:05.6	Today's episode is maybe the...
0:08.0	...differentest of all.
0:10.6	Welcome to the Affordable Care Podcast.
0:12.8	The show that understands you can afford anything but not everything.
0:16.4	And that speaks to opportunity cost and it speaks to resource allocation.
0:22.5	You've got a limited amount of money, time, energy, attention, so where are you going to direct it?
0:29.5	Becoming a wise allocator of resources?
0:32.8	That is a lifelong challenge and practice.
0:36.4	And that's what this show is here to help you explore and help you facilitate.
0:42.2	My name's Paula Pant.
0:43.5	This is the Affordable Care Podcast.
0:45.8	Typically, we are a weekly show with new episodes coming out Wednesday-ish.
0:51.2	And normally, on our weekly shows, we will either interview a guest about money, career, behavior, economics,
0:58.8	investing, will either interview a guest around those topics, or we'll answer questions that come from you.
1:05.3	Typically, questions around investing, budgeting, savings, debt payoff, midlife career moves, whatever is on your mind.
1:13.5	But on the first Friday of every month, we do something completely different.
1:20.1	Our first Friday episodes are our time to experiment, to do things that are special, that are unique,
1:28.8	to introduce you to different types of guests or different topics.
1:34.5	And so today, I want to bring on a guest who gives an interview that is very personal, very meaningful,
1:43.6	that I hope will resonate with many of you.
1:47.2	So as you know, if you're a long time listener, I spent this past year doing a fellowship for mid-career business journalists at Columbia.
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