Takes a bit. We're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest. His name is Hal Whiteman. He just published a book in late May, May 24th on Amazon.

2022 title is, what's the matter with Delaware, how the first state has favored the rich, powerful, and criminal, and how it costs us all. He's also written another book back in 2012 or 11,

titled Latin Lessons, How South America Stoped Listening to the United States and Started Prospering.

Mr. Weitzman is an adjunct associate professor of behavioral science and executive director

for intellectual capital at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, where he serves as editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Review.

Before joining Booth in 2012, he was an editor and foreign correspondent at the Financial

Times for 12 years.

As well as the Financial Times, his reporting has appeared in The Economist, the Los Angeles

Times, Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, New Statesman, Irish Times, his reporting has appeared in The Economist, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune,

to Miami Herald, New Statesman, Irish Times, Market Watch, Slate, and Politico.

Hal grew up in Wales and was educated at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard,

Oriel College, Oxford, and Leeds University.

And again, the title of the book we're going to talk about today.

Very timely book, considering who's the president of the United States, what's the matter with

Delaware, how the first state has favored the rich, powerful, and criminal, and how it costs

this all. So Hal White's been, welcome to the show. Thank you very much for inviting me on.

Awesome. So for people, maybe not heard your earlier book or maybe some of your other work in other magazines, can you kind of talk about your background and your career and what led you to write this book? What's the matter with Bill?

Okay. Well, my background is in financial journalism. As you said, I was at the Financial Times. I was there correspondent down in Peru. And before that, I was an editor in London.

And then I came to be the Chicago correspondent before joining the University of Chicago.

So why did I come to Delaware? Well, you know, it always seemed to me that all roads led to Delaware.

And I never really understood why.

And I always wanted to dig into it.

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