Episode 527: Mary Childs

Published: March 22, 2023, 4:57 p.m.

Mary Childs is a co-host of the podcast\xa0Planet Money\xa0and the author of\xa0The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All.\n\u201cI 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\xa0most\xa0selves, 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.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@mdc\n\nmarychilds.com\n\n\nPlanet Money\xa0(NPR)\n\n\nThe Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All\xa0(Flatiron \u2022 2022)\n\n26:00\xa0American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped the Nation\xa0(Sarah L. Quinn \u2022 Princeton University Press \u2022 2019)\n\n33:00\xa0The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine\xa0(Michael Lewis \u2022 Norton \u2022 2010)\n\n33:00\xa0The Bond King: Investment Secrets from PIMCO's Bill Gross\xa0(Tim Middleton \u2022 Wiley \u2022 2004)\n\n43:00\xa0"J. Screwed"\xa0(Planet Money \u2022 NPR \u2022 May 2020)\n\n43:00\xa0"Banque Worms"\xa0(Planet Money \u2022 NPR \u2022 Jul 2021)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices