Soviet Union in Europe. You were stationed in Tokyo during the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the 9-11 attacks and you covered Wall Street, of course, leading up to and through the crisis, which we talked about in our last episode together. And now you find yourself as the editor at large of what is effectively the largest English language financial newspaper in the world. What is it like to work at the Financial Times in your capacity during a time like this? Well, it's moments like this that make me realize why journalism is such a responsibility and a privilege and a passion of mine because essentially, you know, we're paid to tell people about other people and try and illuminate how the world's working or often not working. And doing that in quiet times and peace times is always very important as part of the civic duty, but doing it in times of drama of war, medical war, of the thought we got now or financial war, of the thought I've seen before in financial crises shows the (2/43)
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