I think we're headed for some version of the roaring 20s coming out of the 1918 pandemic year. The average wages for British peasants like doubled over the next 50 years. So you can't have that kind of massive unrest and upset without kind of resetting the relative value that we assigned to different things. I hadn't connected those dots before, but we've seen a massive acceleration.
Kara and Scott still have their blue checks! They discuss a confusing and slow legacy check removal process at Twitter. Also, the Russian government’s arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, and other repressive governments making business hard around the world. Plus, Virgin Orbit has halted operations for the foreseeable future and four billionaires will have to talk about their relationship with Jeffery Epstein. Oh, and by the time you’re reading this, former President Trump may have been arrested.
Friend of Pivot Liz Hoffman discusses her new book, Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink.
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