the conversations of the great minds of chrystia freeland bush is currently the editor of thomson reuters digital and author of the critically acclaimed book plutocrats the rise of the new global super rich and the fall of everyone else i have to add i am reading i am finding it absolutely amazing book. who is leon cooper and what does and you know and what does his story tell us or his opinion of president obama more specifically tell us about the very very rich i believe cooperman is the founder of this successful billionaire founder of a hedge fund called omega and as a sort of part of the rollout of my book i wrote a profile of him for the new yorker i chose to tell these story because he. it was identified as he wrote a letter to the president which sort of went viral particularly among the super elite among the plutocrats in which he accused the president of waging class war and said that the president was hostile to capitalism hostile to the rich that that was an american and what was really interesting to me about this letter is the way that mr kuperman really emphasized his own story whi

conversations with great vines i'm joined by christian freeland christian is currently the editor of thomson reuters digital previously she was the global editor at large of reuters and the united states managing editor of the financial times she's also the author of the critically acclaimed book plutocrats the rise of the new global super rich and the fall of everyone else she joins me from our new york studios christian welcome great to be here and so nice to be a conversation with great minds well you know it's hard felt actually i measure i measure the quality of a book by how many pages i've dog eared marked up in your book is littered with posted notes and you start the book with the story of the party in new york city that was coincidentally at the at the kind of the peak of great riches among the the the robber barons of the robber baron era and also at the tail end of the longest depression in american history two facts that i think most americans don't know can you tell us a story about that party and how and what its impact was. well this is the bradley martin ball and i'm glad that you're singli

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