2020 and things are crazy and some great minds have been exiting the world speaking of minds but also speaking of nassim taleb he wrote a great tweet eulogizing david grouper who was a friend of mine a friend of ours a friend of the show hes been on the show many times hes the author he was the author of debt the 1st 5000 years and i think nassim taleb who is an intellectual himself and a great author and you know thinker who explores ideas and is willing to be challenged just like david graber was wrote David Greenberger he was a real intellectual very real not one fake cell in his brain not one fake bone in his body he thought independently he was monstrously original he had intellectual courage the world seems much smaller today than before september 2nd david rest in peace yeah he is a intellectual giant i guess you could say of this era and wrote about death its a point of view which i guess. Would some would say would be anticapitalist in a lot of ways in explored that vigorously
Episode a kaiser report during the exponential spread of the pandemic coronavirus were looking at the 2nd half of the chessboard as it is called and i want might want to add that today is my birthday so turning one year older in the midst of an exponential pandemic which is hitting the mortality rates go exponential as you get older is not fun to turn a year older in the middle of a pandemic but before we get into the exponential growth of the pandemic lets look at the result of the exponential growth in debt over the past few decades chis report of course has been reporting on this non stop for the past 10 years and i want to look at these 2 charge is the 30 year treasury and the price of oil if you turn it upside down you see the exponential its going exponential down 30 year treasury yield is well below a one percent oil price obviously we collapsed 30 percent on the opening on monday of this week the price of money whether its cash 2 year note 5 year no 10 year note 30 or no is app