Episode 527: Mary Childs

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

b'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'