Welcome to The Sherwood Ten, your brief window into the minds of the most interesting people in our worlds.

Today's guest: Mary Childs, co-host for NPR's Planet Money podcast and the author of the bestselling book, "The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All." Before joining the NPR team in 2019, she was a senior reporter at Barron's magazine, where she covered the alternatives industry, the bond market and capitalism. Before that, she worked at the Financial Times and Bloomberg News. She's written about the pioneering of new asset classes like time, billionaire's proposals to solve inequality and diversity and discrimination in the finance industry.

Hosted by Jody Avirgan (538, TED, Radiotopia) and produced by Sherwood Media and Roulette Productions.

This season of The Sherwood Ten is sponsored by Cboe Global Markets.