Capital evolution with Elizabeth MacBride

As you're coming up as a business reporter, are you developing a view of capitalism, our current version of it? How is your thinking around how we marshal resources in our society evolving at this time?

I've always been patriotic in kind of an old school sense.

Revolutionary war ancestors and the whole raised in a military family.

And when I was coming up as a business journalist, I was writing about really the American dream.

I was writing a lot about small business owners who built their companies over generations and handed them down.

My background as a business journalist, that's kind of where I'm rooted, right? It's the importance of innovation and small business.

But that's the root of it is people who are entrepreneurial, who have an idea for an innovation or just work a lot harder and grow their companies.

I went to Silicon Valley for a little while.

I took a detour.

Silicon Valley companies, one half of it is the idea.

The other half is a lot of money.

How they get money.

Yeah.

And the ones with money are almost always the ones that win.

And so understanding that was very important.

So that shaped my view of capitalism.

That was the capital piece, if you will.

And then the last piece is that I ended up doing a bunch of work in the Middle East.

So it's sort of those three things, right? It's like the American dream, the kind of importance of finance and how that works how that flows or doesn't flow and then this third piece of a system isn't like invented naturally this doesn't occur organically we invent it and we build it