Vanity Fair's William D. Cohan

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week, new host Katie Barlow interviews Vanity Fair special correspondent William D. Cohan as her first episode of Words Matter. Bill is former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years and is the New York Times bestselling author of three non-fiction narratives about Wall Street. His latest book Why Wall Street Matters is a must read for anyone trying to understand the political and policy issues at stake in the 2020 elections. Bill also writes for The Financial Times, The New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, The Nation, Fortune, and Politico. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Words Matter.
0:07.0	Welcome to Words Matter.
0:11.0	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:14.0	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:20.0	Words have power and words have consequences.
0:25.0	We are joined today by one of the truly great journals and writers working today.
0:29.0	Best-selling award-winning author and vanity fair special correspondent among other titles, William D. Cullen.
0:36.0	Welcome to Words Matter.
0:37.0	Nice to be here. Thank you for having me.
0:39.0	But first, an introduction is an order.
0:41.0	Several times in episode, I will say we, when talking about Words Matter.
0:44.0	There are 15 people who spend all or significant part of their time working on this project or plan to.
0:50.0	Katie Barlow is one of those people.
0:52.0	Katie has been working with us since launch.
0:54.0	She's taken the lead in developing new podcasts and we have two DC-based projects in pre-production at the moment.
1:00.0	By way of background, Katie's a lawyer and the founder and editor of DC Circuit Breaker,
1:04.0	which provides news and analysis on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia,
1:08.0	something that's going to become even more important over the next few weeks, months and even years.
1:14.0	As a journalist, Katie has covered Capitol Hill with WTOP,
1:18.0	including Justice Kagan's confirmation hearing, as well as the Supreme Court with NPR's Neon and Totenburg.
1:23.0	It was always in the plan that as we grew, Katie would be a sometime host and co-host of this podcast.
1:28.0	So we're moving that up. Katie, welcome to Words Matter.
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