Just leave it this way. Alright. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . For about 20 years or so, youve been the wealthiest man in the world. But because youve given away so much money recently, jeff bezos became wealthier. Do you think if you had stayed in college and gotten your College Degree [laughter] i mean, you dont feel inadequate now, being only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right . Bill no, i mean its a sign that i havent given the money away fast enough to drop out of the top 10. And, you know, the market has markets been strong. [applause] david actually, the market has been strong. Microsoft is up 35 this year. So, to what do you attribute that . Bill the company is doing super well. Satya nadella is a great ceo. You know, t
David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . For about 20 years or so, youve been the wealthiest man in the world. But because youve given away so much money recently, jeff bezos became wealthier. Do you think if you had stayed in college and gotten your College Degree [laughter] i mean, you dont feel inadequate now, being only the second wealthiest man in the world, is that right . Bill no, i mean its a sign that i havent given the money away fast enough to drop out of the top 10. And, you know, the markets been strong. [applause] david actually, the market has been strong. Microsoft is up 35 this year. So, to what do you attribute that . Bill the company is doing super well. Satya nadella is a great ceo. You know, the whole dream of the importance of so
To finance a labyrinth this is some bird drama about fascism betrayal and magic by the mexican filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro and its clearly a focus favorite film. For the author it has all the ingredients of good fantasy magic depth as well as a clear underlying stance. When Guillermo Del Toro asked her whether she would turn his film into a book she hesitated at for. 1st but then she accepted the offer and that turned into pans labyrinth the labyrinth of the fun. Stuff. That was such a delightful experience and of course it was a crazy project yakked huge as i didnt think it could be done who would read a book based on a film theyre always bad and the film is so amazing that i can imagine transforming it into words. Alba bass when someone gives you an Impossible Task you have no choice right. Its wonderful to hear that things that look has expanded a universe of his film and i had to invent short stories to flesh out the plot and back stories for the characters and thats what he wante
Aware many of you have no idea who i am so thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. I think it speaks very well of you and i know theres really big names at the festival and i feel honored to be among them so thanks for coming. Who am i to mark a few things around i write a column called the undercover economist for the Financial Times. At the pink newspaper thats really good. I recommend it. Thanks baxter. And the second thing is i present bbc radio so im present a show for the Bbc World Service called 50things that made the modern economy. Ive presented a show for bbc radio for aboutnumbers and how we think about numbers and how numbers lead us astray. And sometimes help us understand the world. And i also have a podcast with a gentleman called michael lewis, a gentleman called Malcolm Gladwell called Cautionary Tales which is all aboutthings going wrong , sometimes in amusing ways and what we can learn from them. So in between all that, i tried to write a few bo
Prone to gaffes. In congress, no agreement on how to respond to the virus. The latest proposals, a payroll tax holiday for the rest of the year. In other words, your Social Security contribution, suspended. Another one, extend the april 15th tax deadline. However, congress had better get on with it. A oneweek recess starts friday. The market, not happy with any of this. Stocks will be down at the opening bell. You kind of get seasick watching it all. Down 2,000 monday, up 1100 tuesday, this morning we will open about 800 points to the downside. Similar losses for the s p and nasdaq. The virus, there are now just over 1,000 cases in the United States. Draconian action in new rochelle, new york, where the National Guard has been called out to help with a cluster of cases in that town. Seattle has restrictions on large gatherings. The first lawsuits have appeared, a cruise line sued. And just look at this. Students at the university of dayton rioted last night after the authorities announ