and difficult in case of my parents and for myself, but if you look at what else the option was, there is no other option. you were an illegal entrant. that s the technical term. you ended up in a detention centre for some time. and then, of course, you were given asylum. you settled in london, you studied. i mean, it s remarkable to think about it, but without any real access to the formal paths of education, you found a night school, you studied hard, you got extraordinary exam results, ended up at cambridge university and you were taken, accepted onto a medicine course, which is extremely hard to do for any kid in the united kingdom, let alone somebody with your background. how much do you think you sort of sacrificed your mental health to achieve what you achieved? i would like to clarify that i don t think that s something special about me. there are special characteristics about refugees, about people who go through conflict, through traumas.
from afghanistan to a safe country was impossible. the only route available was through selling the house of my father and putting the money and all his fate into the hands of an agent. so sadly, because of the lack of these official routes or the routes, people have to either give away their life and their futures, stay in the country where they either die physically or they die meaningfully, that they have got no means to feed their children, they have got no futures. and that was the experience i was going through. the alternative was to go to unknown destination, and that s a decision, although it seems very harsh and difficult in case of my parents and for myself, but if you look at what else the option was, there is no other option. you were an illegal entrant. that s the technical term. you ended up in a detention
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that said, the normal measure of what is a recession, it s usually not hard to figure out, at least in retrospect, whether it s recession because it s a broad-based downturn. so far, we don t have a broad-based downturn. we have some things that are going up and some things that are going down, and i think that mostly reflects what a weird moment this has been from covid, the recession of 2020 wasn t two quarters long. it lasted only two months, and that was also extremely weird. so might be it s not surprising that this is weird on the other side. all right. austan goolsbee, i thi agrees t economic moment. thank you very much. thank you. i like that, extreme weirdness. we can all agree. technical term. in a more than two-hour call with the white house, china says presidents xi warned president biden about taiwan saying, if you play with fire, you get
be completely drawn in. great performances and a plot like you ve never seen before. reflective of a weird time we re living in. says something about our minds right now. it really does. on the flipside, you ve got ted lasso . the two shows couldn t be more opposite. ted lasso is the nice guy show. people live and they win sports ball games. technical term, right? yeah, you know, this is had a huge year, second season, won a bunch of emmys. jason sudeikis is on a roll with this series. the 2022 option. let s talk about music and you ve got two of the biggest names, adele and taylor swift, both putting out albums about love and heartbreak and crying and all those things. they just can t do anything wrong, can they? can we talk about adele? this is not a person who releases an album every year or every other year. her last one was five years ago. so when she drops something she s n n a lot of time on it and you know you re going to love it.