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The Blackmail Episode

The Blackmail Episode

Slate Money · Slate Podcasts

May 15, 202155m 49s

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Show Notes

Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by Brad Stone to talk about the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and his new book Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, covering things like AMI’s extortion of Bezos, what the single cow burger tells about who Bezos has become, the impact of Amazon’s labor practices, and many more Bezos/Amazon topics. 

In the Plus segment: Neobanks. 

Mentioned in the show:

No Thank You, Mr. Pecker,” by Jeff Bezos

Colonial Pipeline Paid the Ransom. Bad Move,” by Timothy L. O'Brien for Bloomberg 

The Deadly Toll of Amazon’s Trucking Boom,” by Paris Martineau for The Information

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace,” by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld for the New York Times

 “Simple Banking Customers Still Locked Out; Parent BBVA Says Its Customer Service Crashed,” by Mike Rogoway for Oregon Live


Email: [email protected]

Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.

Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i


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