Thank you for coming. That is the pink newspaper thats really good. I present bc radio. Ive done a show for the World Service ive made fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy. And how numbers lead us astray and sometimes help us to understand the world. I also have a podcast with a gentleman called michael lewis. Called Cautionary Tales its all about things going wrong sometimes and tragic ways and sometimes in amusing ways. In between all of that i try to write a few bucks. The second thing i want to say is thank you to the Rancho Mirage festival to jamie and the rest of the festival. A round of applause for jamie please. Jamie emailed me probably 18 months ago and suggested i fly across the world from Oxford England to come to Rancho Mirage. Its a huge journey for me. Thank you very much to all of you. I feel fortunate to be here. [applause]. I said i wasnt a fan of long preambles. Clearly im a total hypocrite. Let me talk about this book of mine. I dont if you can see the sl
Going to have to deal with and maybe today were finding out. Is that what this is yeah, but ill tell you whats so interesting. There are very few people, i believe, who really thought that the rosy scenario was going to occur. I know we had that press conference this weekend that was a little disorganized, but the sudden recognition of a number that i think, unfortunately, a lot of people really kind of hoping wasnt going to happen is jarring the market but and i by the way, jeffrey gundlach, hes right this is one of the easier rollovers to predict but i want people to like look into their own brains and hearts and really, really answer, did you really think it was only going to be a couple thousand people did you really think that . When they finally announced that number, if that should cause the selloff, then youve got to rethink whether you want to be in stocks. Because i think that theyre just making up numbers, as dr. Fauci says hey, thats the input so dont sell on that. Sell bec
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Writers festival. This is 45 minutes. Please welcome tim harford. [applause]. Thank you very much everyone. Host i dont believe in long preambles but i thought i should say a few words. I am well aware the many of you have no idea who i am printed as a thank you for showing up on the spirits of pure curiosity. It speaks very well of you. Even though its a really big name for the festival. I feel very honored to be amongst them. So who am i, few things. Already called the undercover columnist for the Financial Times. It is really good. I recommend it printed thank you sir. [laughter]. The second thing is im with radio. I chauffeur the media world service, fifty inventions that shaped the modern economy. And how we think about numbers and how numbers sometimes lead us astray. They help us understand the world. And i also have a podcast with a gentleman called Michael Lewis and malcolm. Read Cautionary Tales force all about things going wrong and sometimes in amusing ways. And what we can