Semafora's Liz Hoffman Reveals What Happened When the Economy Just Stopped
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Liz Hoffman, Semafor’s Business & Finance Editor, chronicles the business leaders that navigated COVID-19 in Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink. The book, out now from Crown, reveals the machinations between the public and private sectors as businesses prepared, reacted, and survived the financial fallout of an economic shutdown. She joins the podcast to talk about her process to recreate the day-to-day experience of decision makers in 2020, the state of journalism, and what readers can expect to find on the pages of Crash Landing.
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