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Expendable Men

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss the billionaire space race we saw this week, Johnson &amp; Johnson’s “Texas two-step” plan, and two big workplace issues -- expenses and meetings. 

In the Plus segment: Private markets. 

Mentioned in the show:
“Are You a Bezos?” by Jacob Bernstein for the New York Times
“Emergency Skin” by N. K. Jemisin
‘Just Expense It’ is Corporate Speak for ‘Our Policies Assume You’re Rich’ by Stacy-Marie Ishmael for Fortune. 
“Nasdaq Gets Serious About Private-Company Share Trading” by Felix Salmon for Axios. 

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