About this episode
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: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon , @EmilyRPeck , @s_m_i Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices