Dexter Filkins
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521 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 6d ago
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And they paid an enormous amount of money for it.
And I don't remember what it was, more than a billion dollars.
And they got in trouble.
It was a bad investment.
And I think the property market just collapsed at the time.
And so Qatar is one of the world's wealthiest countries and it's very, very small.
It's a tiny place sitting on an ocean of natural gas.
And so they have an enormous sovereign wealth fund.
They have an enormous amount of money to invest.
And every year in New York, they come to New York and they take all comers.
People line up at the St.
Regis Hotel to say, please, I want your money to invest in my company.
And one of those people was Charles Kushner, Jared's father.
He was in line.
He met with those officials and he said, I really need you to invest in my office building.
I need a billion dollars.
And so the Qatari said no.
And I spoke to one of the Qataris who was involved in that whole negotiation.
And he said, oh, my God.
He said, you know, they overpaid for the thing.
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