Why weren't the economic consequences of COVID more apocalyptic? Liz Hoffman on how government and companies successfully crash landed the COVID economy

In this KEEN ON episode, CRASH LANDING author Liz Hoffman offers the inside story of how the world's biggest companies and governments mostly enabled us to survive the COVID economy

Liz Hoffman is the business and finance editor at Semafor. Previously, she was a senior reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered financial markets, corporate dealmaking, and the machinations of Wall Street. A native of central Pennsylvania, Hoffman graduated from Tufts University and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her latest book is “Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World’s Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on the Brink” (2023)

Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.