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Episode 527: Mary Childs

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Mary Childs is a co-host of the podcast Planet Money and the author of The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All.

“I love aberrations. I love when things go wrong. You get a high stress situation, you get all of the manifestations of personality. We're our most selves, if not our best selves, at those times. I like the [stories] that have embedded in them all of those conduits of power and that reveal the greater system.”

Show notes:

  • @mdc
  • marychilds.com
  • Planet Money (NPR)
  • The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All (Flatiron • 2022)
  • 26:00 American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped the Nation (Sarah L. Quinn • Princeton University Press • 2019)
  • 33:00 The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis • Norton • 2010)
  • 33:00 The Bond King: Investment Secrets from PIMCO's Bill Gross (Tim Middleton • Wiley • 2004)
  • 43:00 "J. Screwed" (Planet Money • NPR • May 2020)
  • 43:00 "Banque Worms" (Planet Money • NPR • Jul 2021)

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