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In the best-selling “Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction,” David Enrich, the finance editor of The New York Times, shows how greed and unchecked ambition toppled Deutsche Bank from its position as a paragon of European institutional lending.

“While it’s true that just about every bank under the sun has been attached to one or more financial scandals over the years, Deutsche Bank really has been involved in a disproportionate number,” Enrich says on this week’s podcast. “But to me, the better measure of its destructive capacity is the havoc it’s wreaked around the world. You can really look in probably almost every continent of the world and see some major and pretty bad scandal that the bank was involved with that caused real harm.”

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave visits the podcast this week to discuss her first novel for adults, “The Mercies,” which was inspired by a witch hunt in 17th-century Norway.