November but the time to make means this years convention as an almost entirely virtual affair. And here in germany the trial begins in an unprecedented online paedophile case alongside the defendant more than 150. 00 suspects have been identified and prosecutors say theyre investigating tens of thousands of leads. Im going to have you with us. And belarus president. Sending mixed messages about his willingness to hand over power on sunday the authoritarian leader said protestors would have to kill him before any new vote is allowed now he says he may be open to new elections but only after a constitutional referendum thats what mark a reversal for 26 years has resisted any challenge to his power but calls for him to resign are louder than ever says he won reelection last week but many inside and outside of say the vote was raked. There are red and white flag of the opposition has been raised once more on the streets of minsk this time by the workers of bell averse who gathered outside
The election conversation right now. Speaker pelosi calling the house back into session for urgent action, she says, on the matter. So urgent they are not coming back until later this week. Meanwhile, the market shrugging off any possible chaos from the election. The s p, in fact, could hit an alltime high today. Goldman sachs is raising its forecast on the s p to 3600 by years end. Its also a big week for retail as well. Several Big Companies reporting profits starting with walmart and home depot tomorrow. Lots to talk about. Im Ashley Webster. Yes, stuart is back tomorrow. Varney company is about to begin. Its been run horribly and were going to make it good. Now, what am i supposed to do, let it continue to run badly so if you fix it they say oh, hes tampering with the election. Were not tampering. This is a con game by pelosi and schumer. Look, the post office, theres 25 billion sitting there but they really want 1 trillion to bail out their badly run states. Ashley yeah, that was
Great to have you with us its been 3 months im dreaming of talking to you and asking you all these questions so the day has come high. Well thank you. Very rarely honor the restriction to are going to. Write so nicholas at this Energy Online forum have talked about making societies more resilience to the future challenges without trying to protect them exactly but making sure well be ready for the unexpected i mean do you expect the call the crisis to be teaching us anything in that regard it definitely but theres 2 central things i have to say the 1st one is that you dont have to be paranoid in general but a lot of things just have to be paranoid about small number of threats and the main one is. The pandemics and that makes all the methods people just worry about global. War or mobile already know the big think biggest threat we have has been that it will be a mix. And and and because of the structure of modern society germs can travel much faster so something i was saying of the cen
Care for dogs bred in commercial breeding for so many most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with dogs dont buy dog on a. Lawn welcome to so think of visionaries me Sophie Shevardnadze could 900 condemn a came as an external shock is unprecedented how can we navigate then certainty of the post condemning future to discuss this im joined by the author of best selling books the black Swan Antifragile and skin in the game guide that having 3 minute talk to for the past 3 months every scandalous Nassim Nicholas taleb. Yes im Nicholas Taleb risk analyst author of thought best selling books to black swan and 2 for a child skin in the game so great to have you with us is been 3 months im dreaming of talking to you and asking those questions so the day has come high. Well thank you. Very very rarely honor the restriction to. Write so nicholas at this Energy Online forum have talked about making societies more resilience to the fut
Its great to be with. I noticed from doing podcasts we are going to read a few sentences i will probably gather from your book and the first question, you write in the book, innovation is most important on the modern world but the least understood. Its the reason most people say prosperity and wisdom prepare for their ancestors. The main ingredient in freedom to exchange, experiment and fail liberals have argued that freedom mean needs prosperity bi would argue theyve never found the chain by which one causes the other. Innovation is the driving change, the missing link. If a child of freedom and parent of prosperity. The theres a growing belief since the Apollo Space Program and the innovation from this part of central planners in the industrial policy. People exchanging the ideas freely yes we are experiencing innovation also a care in the western world there are areas we havent been able to get enough innovation and the pandemic has reminded us of that. We havent been able to as muc