So there's no evidence. Of course. You can't prove that. Right. So why not go to the police then? But you see how quickly he squashed it and hurry up and settled it. You know why? He didn't sell it.  No, no, no, no. No one wants to go to trial for bulls**t. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we going to talk. No, but OK. You see in the news recently or tabloid. She want to hear your opinion. He did in Cassie. You know what? I don't understand it because that's the new money grab. I'll try to explain to the brothers like if somebody is raped or something like that, you go to the police. You don't go to an attorney. A civil suit is not criminal. It's just about money. So if a young lady's been accosted or raped or hurt, you go directly to the police. But in your opinion, what constitutes a rape, especially if this person, listen to me, especially if this person is your boyfriend because it's PDT and Cassie been dating for years. Right. So if he's your man, what constitutes that being a rape? I like to put that back on you. No, I don't. You first. As a man, I'm trying to figure out how.  Right.  And he hold me down and take it. Not that's rape to me. No, and he's my husband. But I'd be like, baby, I don't feel like. I don't feel like. I don't feel like. I don't feel like. Listen. So is that rape? If I tell my husband that, baby, I don't want it tonight. I don't want it tonight. And he's like, I don't hold me down and take it. I don't. I don't. Would you consider that as rape? I would. OK. Well. Although that's my husband. Listen, I would, because I was taught no means no. Right.  I remember a night like that I got up out there. I was like, I'm done. I'm not doing this. Well, I don't play like that, bro. Yeah. I was young.  I used to call her. This is a friend of mine, Jesse Collins. Jesse Collins. Right. One night I met this girl at the comic store and she comes over to the house, gets butt naked, get in the bed, we in the bed, I get butt naked, and she goes, what are we doing? So what do you think? Well, what are you doing? I cut all the lights on her. I called 911. 911. I said, what's going on? I said, this girl's in my bed. She said, she don't know what we're doing. I'm just kidding you on the phone. Then I called Jesse Collins. I said, Jesse, I'm going to stay on the phone with you until the police get in. What did you tell the police when the police arrived? I said, this girl's naked. I said, I don't know what the hell's going on. I don't want to be, I don't know what this, I met her today, I met at the comic store and then we got here, she came and got naked, and she was offended. I was like, I don't know what the problem is. What did she say? She was disgusted. She didn't like start crying. He raped me. No, no, no, no. She couldn't, she couldn't because he had to, he had to. So, she was disgusted, but that's where the game, that's it. You got to play that.  Is it okay? Are you sure it's okay? Is it? Okay, we got affirmative. We got affirmative pussy, it's okay. I'm like, it's a money game. Could it be that when Cassie, it was a few years ago when, when her, she left, P.D., everybody knew she was gone. Yeah, they broke up for a while now. And this guy, she had met somebody else.  You said he wasn't going to. Yeah, you know, the money is not like that P.D. money for sure. No. So, if the money run low, I know I got all the back, I'm throwing temper tantrum because I'm used to getting what I get and see, and they being pimp like that. All you, all you have to say is so and so looked at me wrong. I said in my head, yeah, and they're up and not the police, they don't, they don't. It's not the same thing with Bill Cobb. He was trying to tell you. They don't call the police to call their attorney. They call their attorney and the attorney makes it a statement. Damn. But if they called the police, it would be squashed. Because you know what they're going to do? They're going to investigate. Yeah. They're going to do whatever a woman is right. Her body becomes evidence evidence. That's right.   So there's no evidence. You can't prove that. So why not go to the police then? But you see how quickly he squashed it and hurry up and settled it. You know why? He didn't sell it. I see it like the reason why is because he don't want some other stuff to come out that she probably don't know. No, no, no.  You know how much a trial like this is going to cost? Whatever it costs? And they know that. They know that. That's why they go to a civil case. Because they know it's quicker to go, give her $20 million. It's quicker to go to mediation than to trial. Same thing with Johnny Depp.  Because women can say that now and not be held accountable. Because when you go to trial, say he goes to trial right now, right? He spends $70 million on trial. Just to hear he didn't do a goddamn thing. The girl don't go to jail. He don't get his money back? None. Exactly. It's a game. It's a game. But how does a man move who is such a status?  It's about extortion. What about? Do you think? Have them sign paperwork. You do that too. This thing starts to undevelop and unravel when you just hear stuff like this because one case comes, then others follow. People start saying stuff. They know they can get away with it. It's extortion. Whoever he's contacting. It's extortion. She has a pimp pimping it out. And somebody else could come up very soon. Of course. Because now the trend is there. It's a trend now. Because once she went and made money, I can get it too. I was with him one night. Yeah. I can say that. And that's why people, why are they so selfish? Why are they so standocious?      That's what's going to start happening. It's going to happen because people are going to get sick of it. But that's why people would normally want to go to court because if you go to court and you win, and nobody else is going to come up against you because they're not going to win. No. That's not. You see, you're thinking of it as a layman. If you were a hundred, four hundred million dollars, did everybody's in on it? The turnies? That's right. Everybody's getting a piece of this, 70 million dollars.  Because they don't have no status. They ain't no money. And they ain't no money.


I'm taking a look at the spy, I'm doing a marker review and I'm really doing this for Mark because I call calls in the spy. Now backtrack here, take a look at it. What happened here today, the market gap down. The tail signifies red, the market open today fell. Fell was red, had a red body. Could have fallen all the way down, could have fallen here, could have fallen here, couldn't have fallen off a planet, didn't do it. I didn't believe it would do it. And hopefully Mark held the conviction as well. I said yesterday as well, I thought the market wouldn't fall and it didn't. Then we gap down today unexpectedly, but I really thought that if we gap down today, we'd rally, if we, we gaped up, we'd rally and if we were neutral, we'd rally. That's how I felt last night. In fact, I think I said that in the webinar. But anyways, it's a late rally here again today and exactly what time did we lift and go green, 1.15. 1.15 is when we did it and then we broke out here at two o'clock. So we will close green today no matter what happens in our 10 minutes left. And I'm not saying 100%, but I'm saying, you know what? I wouldn't be surprised at all. And Mark will be very happy about this because he's in this trade still, I think. If the market does something crazy tomorrow morning, and I'm not saying 100%, but I would be surprised of nothing, why? People shorted the market today. People shorted the market yesterday. People shorted this market here from the other day and they may have gotten out.  Theoretically, if you shorted the market here, you would have been up and you could have got out. Whether you did a short or a put or whatever. I don't know if people got out, but I'm just saying, if people did, they could have got out, but not everybody did. And you can tell people shorted here and here and here. And I'm saying I wouldn't be surprised if the market opened over the high tomorrow. I mean, to me, when I look at this, that's not crazy at all. And I'm not saying 100%, but I'm saying nothing would surprise me. It's really the utter, utter, utter strength we're seeing right now currently at this juncture in the market. And when I look at multiple charts, I see it too. And I'm just gonna quickly take a look here at Apple. Just a quick video here. Because of the fact that when I kept looking at Apple and I kept looking at Apple and I said, I don't think this is going anywhere down. And I didn't do a short in this and obviously you wanna go along this, but I just couldn't, I just couldn't get behind a short in this. And I couldn't get behind a short in this. So this will affect the market. This is a larger percentage of the QQQs.  Very, very tricky market. You have to know what you're doing. But conviction counts. Conviction counted today and accounting yesterday too. Because if you, this is part of the reason where we're talking about volatility as far as believing someone's gonna go a certain way and then having to go the exact opposite way. Because if you let the market was going down, you got tricked. It didn't go down, it rallied today. If you thought the market was gonna go up yesterday after yesterday's close, which it could have, that would have been the most logical thing. And then got up today and the market was down and you were in a long, you were got tricked too. Cause then you got tricked thinking it was gonna fall. And then you see, we're back up here. We're basically in the body of the bar from yesterday. So it would have tricked you. So that's why you have to know what you're doing when you're trading so you don't get jostled around. Stick to it, set the risk, take it, let it play out, let it do its thing, hold the conviction, and most importantly, know what you're doing when you're trading. All right, have a good day everyone.


This week, Tamil communities in Canada and around the world will come together to celebrate Taipungal, the Tamil Harvest Festival. The Taipungal is the occasion to express our recognition for the abundance of harvest. It's a chance to gather with friends and family to share Pungal and celebrate the start of the new year. In Canada, January also marks Tamil Heritage Month. It's an opportunity to recognize the strong roots of Canada's Tamil community and celebrate the many important contributions Tamil Canadians have made and continue to make to our country. Like several communities across the country, the origins of Tamil Canadians make Canada a more prosperous, open and inclusive country. On behalf of our family, Sophie and I wish everyone celebrating a joyful festival and a happy Tamil Heritage Month. Inya Taipungal, Nauval Tukal.


President Bolatimbo has received letters of credence from three ambassadors-designates and a presidential villa in Abuja. Letter of credence is the formal letter that the ambassadors show the president and their government appointing them to serve Nigeria. Speaking of statehouse correspondence, Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf Tugay said ambassadors-designates are from the Republic of Cuba, the United Arab Emirates, and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Well, it was the ambassadors of Ethiopia, of Cuba, and the United Arab Emirates presenting the letter of credence. And these are countries that we've had very good close relationships with for many years. And, you know, there were several discussions about ongoing issues and very, very amiable. And, you know, in fact, some of them were quite emotional because, for instance, the ambassador of Cuba is returning for the second time as Cuba's ambassador to Nigeria. And, of course, United Arab Emirates as well is very keen to resolve all outstanding issues, you know, with Nigeria, and very fruitful discussions. Absolutely. Because the work had started even before the presentation of the letter of credence by the ambassador. So, this is something that you want to see changes, issues resolved as quickly as possible.


Let's start over. Welcome everybody. This is your own book. I'm broadcasting today from the United Kingdom, from London, from my hotel room in London. A little bit of a different setup when I travel and always, always seem to be some glitches, but hopefully, hopefully we'll get through it. Okay. It looks like the sound of video right now are pretty good, so we'll hope that lasts. I'm here. I'm here in the UK for a school tour. I do this once a year. I travel around the United Kingdom and speak at high schools. It's really a lot of fun. It's a great age. I find that British kids in high schools tend to be, I don't know, more questioning, more thinking than American kids. I think it's an educational system. Remember, I'm also doing these talks at the best schools in England, so I wonder if the best high schools in the United States maybe have a similar stance, a similar position. But it's fascinating and a lot of fun to talk to them.  But it's a lot of fun to engage with young minds, minds that have never heard the ideas before, and open them to new opportunities and open them to new ideas and to Iron Man's thinking. And I think a lot of these kids are going to read Iron Man. I've got a certain history here now. This is the third year I'm doing this tour. I'll be doing nine talks, most of them in London, although four of them will be in the Oxford area. But some of them outside of London, but in the London region, for example. So today, I was at Westminster. Westminster is in really the heart of London. It's probably one of the best, if not the best of the English schools, academic-wise. Really, really bright kids, really good kids. We talked about free speech. We talked about the whole trigger warnings, the whole idea of placing your emotions above reason. So the whole issue of free speech was discussed. It was really good. We even talked a little bit about egoism. And the kids seemed really interested. I think next time I'm going to come, I'm going to do a talk straight on egoism at Westminster, because they really seemed interested in that topic. And I think there's a real opportunity to open up some minds and open up these kids to Iron Man's ideas. As I said before, I think many of them actually do go on and read Iron Man because they are stimulated and they become interested because of the talks that I give. Tomorrow, I've got an interesting event. I've got two events tomorrow. One at St. Paul's Girls' School, which is one of the probably three, four top girls' schools in the UK. It's a day school, not a boarding school, but all girls' school. I was scheduled to speak at St. Paul's last year. But they got about an inch of snow, and they canceled school that day, so they had to cancel my talk. So I'm back there this year. So that'll be interesting. And then in the evening, and I'm really looking for this in the evening, I'm doing a debate at Eaton against a speaker who claims that inequality is a real social and economic problem. So we're going to debate inequality at Eaton. I don't know how much of you know about Eaton. But Eaton is like the top boarding school boys boarding school in the UK. YouTube looks like it's a disaster. So I'm just going to, I think Facebook's still functioning, so we're going to keep going this on Facebook and keep going at it. So Eaton's going to be a lot of fun because these are really smart kids to get into Eaton and to stay at Eaton. You know, these are really, really smart kids. So I'm looking for the debate. I'm hoping they videotape it, although I have a feeling they won't because these kids are typically not organized around that. And high schools are very sensitive about videotaping events and around the presence of cameras in the classroom. So we will see. But Eaton should be fabulous. The debate should attract a lot of people. And that'll be good. Then Wednesday, I'm doing another boy school, I think. And Thursday, I can't remember what school I'm doing Thursday. But all of them, you know, top schools, top schools in the UK. Overall, I'll be doing nine, at least nine is possibility of a tenth school coming together. Actually, in addition to the school, though, I'm doing Sutton Grammar School on Thursday, which is another type of British school, I guess, grammar schools, public schools funded by the government, but they're the best public schools. So again, I'll have a great, really, really smart audience. And I'm looking forward to that in the evening. On on Thursday, I'm doing a debate at University of Kent. If you're in the UK, you're invited. It's open to the public. It should be a lot of fun against a Marxist. And we're going to debate capitalism versus socialism. It should be a lot of fun, particularly with Venezuela collapsing, I guess you'll claim Venezuela is actually capitalist. And that's why it's collapsing. And finally, let's see, finally, we'll be doing, I'll be going to St. Petersburg, Russia, both places of Iran, where we will be doing an event to celebrate Iran. There's a big event. They're expecting hundreds of people to come. We'll see if that expectation gets realized. And I'll be talking about individualism and political freedom. But it's going to be a whole day of programming with lots of Russian speakers, I don't know, all talking about Iran. So that should be fascinating to be in St. Petersburg to talk about this. From there, I go to Stockholm, where I'm doing a Douglas Murray event. I'm hoping that'll be live streamed both events, the all three events actually, the University of Kent debate on socialism versus capitalism, the St. Petersburg event about Iran, and the Stockholm event on the death of Western civilization with Douglas Murray, all of those events will be live streamed. And if you go to ARI Europe, I'm sure I'm sure Annie will be posting the URLs with all of those links for all of those events. Then I come back to UK. I do four schools at Oxford, which I'm really looking forward to. And then I fly to Prague, where the Ironman Institute is hosting our first European student conference, but it's not just for students. I hope to see many of you adults there as well. We're expecting several hundred people at the Ironman Institute. It keeps coming in and coming out in terms of the, whoops, now we lost Facebook. All right. No, we're back on Facebook. Okay. It keeps going in and out the internet. So I apologize, but it is what it is. All right. I thought what I do today, and you know, the bandwidth here is great. So I don't know what it is. Maybe I'm trying to stream. Maybe this is trying to stream at too high of a rate. I'm not sure how to change that right now. Let's even go to setting and change that audio video. No, I have no idea how to change that. So we got what we got. Let me just, okay, so what I want to talk about today, and I'm going to keep this fairly brief and because because we've got technical problems and it's late and because I'm jet lagged and I want to, somebody asked on Facebook if somebody asked on Facebook are very tired of the same questions being asked over and over again. I don't really, and I don't, I think I don't get really tired of the same questions being asked over and over again. It's because it's different people asking the question. The context is always different. And I'm interested in getting to the individual's mind. I'm interested in impacting the particular individual.   So it's completely new. And I try to answer the best that I can in the context of the question in the context of of the lecture in the context of where I think he's or she is asking the question from. And that keeps it from getting boring because my answers will change in a sense from time to time because they become the answers are always going to be, you know, contextual, the answers are always going to be within a particular context. So that's why I don't get bored. All right, I wanted to talk today about the rise of the left of, you know, the the if you will, the leftist view of economics. This is spurred by an op ed that was published by Noonan Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend.  She's a good writer, but very confused philosophically. But she's actually right about this. She in discussing how it's short, you know, the CEO, former CEO of Starbucks, run for president or what looks like he might run for president, she says, look, this is a guy who's got a great story, right? He's a kid from New York, real working class family.  Family went through real hardship, real challenges. And here he is. He builds a company. The company is brand is so well known. Everybody pretty much in the world knows about it. He's created 238,000 jobs as of 2007. And he's changed the world. I mean, Starbucks has changed the world. It's changed the way we drink coffee. It's changed the way we think about coffee. It's changed. It's it's it's become, you know, this phenomena is incredibly successful businessman. And he presents himself as physically conservative, socially liberal. And Peggy Noonan says, you know, that that's a losing proposition. Nobody's interested in physical service. Take physical services pro-free market and socially liberal. Put aside the socially liberal for a minute. But let's think about the physically conservative. She says, and I'm quoting Peggy Noonan here. America's head had left economically. 2008 changed everything. Deeply undermining faith in free market capitalism. One of the great sins of that time and of all the years after was that the capitalist themselves in their vast killessness couldn't even rouse themselves to defend the reputation of the system that made them rich and their country great. In any case, the most significant sound in 2016 was Trump's audience cheering his vows not to cut entitlements. They would have cheered even louder if he'd promised increases to entitlements. And Peggy Noonan's absolutely right. Trump governs. Trump advocates. Trump is a man from an economic perspective of the left. Not a free market capitalism. And entitlement is probably the best example of that. He is not about cutting or reforming or phasing out or privatizing entitlements. He's not for privatizing our healthcare system. He's not for privatizing anything. So reducing a little bit of regulation and cutting corporate taxes, which again nobody really debated the virtue of cutting corporate taxes. But he's not an advocate for the market. He's not an advocate for free market. He's also for tariffs. He's also for telling CEOs and telling businessmen what and how to do things. So, you know, I've talked a lot about Trump. I'm not going to talk about him now. The Habingdon party or those who support Donald Trump are not pro-free markets. They have moved dramatically to the left of free markets. Of even the understanding of free market that was, if you will, the Republican party of 10, 20 years ago. And on the left, what you're seeing is the rise of Elizabeth 1, the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the rise of Bernie Sanders, the rise of even more radical leftists. You're seeing a dramatic shift further out to the left. In the middle, the Democrats who used to be somewhat physically conservative, somewhat pro-free market, they're a dying breed. They don't exist really. And even they have moved to the left, because that's where the political party is. And if you're going to get votes, if you're going to win elections, that's what you have to play to. So, I think it's safe to say, as Peggy Noonan argues, that the country, there is, why? You know, why has this happened? Why has the country moved so significantly to the left? Now, Noonan states one argument that you hear a lot, and I've made this argument, and that is that we failed significantly in 2008 and afterwards in portraying the crisis as caused by statism, as portraying the crisis as caused by government, and refuting the idea that the crisis was not caused by capitalism, not caused by free markets. Indeed, we should have been arguing the case that there was no capitalism, that the crisis was a crisis of the mixed economy, as indeed it was. And she argues that the people who really didn't defend it were the capitalists themselves, and we know this, it was the bankers and the businessmen who refused to defend capitalism. And it was the politicians and it was columnists like her who did not defend capitalism because they don't know what capitalism is. They don't have a clue, and they can't defend capitalism. They don't know what it is, and to the extent that they think they know what it is, they can't defend it. Capitalism at the end of the day is the system of self-interest. Capitalism is the system of the pursuit of happiness, your happiness, the individual's happiness. Capitalism is the pursuit of the individual's self-interest, both in the producing side, on the work side, on the productive side, and on the consumption side. The whole economic system is built around the idea of individuals pursuing their own ha- This is painful. It's painful that the video cuts in and out. So it is it is that self-interest. It is that pursuit of happiness, that it's pursuit of individual values, that nobody, including Peggy Noonan, nobody can actually defend. Nobody is willing to defend. Nobody goes out of his way to defend. Indeed, they're uncomfortable in defending. At their best, they revert to an Adam Smith-like defense, which says, yeah, everybody pursues their self-interest under capitalism. But we know self-interest is no good. But if you add up all these pursuits of self-interest, it makes society better off, because of innovation, because of risk-taking, because of entrepreneurs, because of business, job creation, and all this. So capitalism is good because of that. So it's the Adam Smith argument. If you add up all the vices of all the individuals pursuing their self-interest, you get a better society. And the standard for goodness is a better society. And therefore capitalism is good. Now nobody buys that.  It's true, as far as it goes, that yes, from a material perspective, capitalism produces the best society. But people are concerned with morality. And what you're telling people morally is that people are committing sins by pursuing their self-interest over and over and over again in everything that they do in life. And that somehow this is washed away by the invisible hand that gives us a richer, more prosperous society. Again, that is not a defense that can work, but that is the defense of Peggy Noonan and everybody else who tries to defend capitalism from the right. Everybody else, the libertarians and the conservatives try to defend capitalism. At the end of the day, that's a defense. Or a defense from ignorance and depravity. Do you know this defense that they give? People are so irrational. People are so ignorant. People are so depraved that you don't want to give them too much power. And of course what statism does is gives them. The reason we're opposed to statism is because it's because we don't want to give these depraved, ignorant, irrational human beings too much power. The beauty of the marketplace is that nobody has that amount of power. And again, but this is the argument, as I called it, the argument for depravity. So human beings irrational. That's why you don't want central planning. No! It's because we're rational you don't want central planning. It's because we have individuals are rational and we as individuals are therefore the only ones who can make value judgments for ourselves. It's not a lack of rationality on the part of the central planet. It's not a lack of information on the part of the central planet. It's the fact that he can be us. It's the fact that every individual is rational. Every individual can make decisions for himself and the central planet cannot be every individual and he cannot make choices, cannot make value judgments for individuals. It's the fact that we are competent, the fact that we're capable of virtue, the fact that we can pursue our own lives, our own happiness successfully that we don't want and central planning cannot work. A supercomputer cannot value for you. A supercomputer doesn't know what your passions are. It doesn't know what your values are. It doesn't know what makes you happy. Only the individual can be inside his own head and know all that. Only the individual has a context in which he can evaluate that. Rationally of course, objectively of course, but objectivity. How can an external party be objective for you? How can a third party tell you what your values should be? So it's a central planning is not about human depravity. The inconsistencies of central planning, the impossibility of central planning, the impossibility of central planning is a consequence of the capacity of every individual to pursue his own self-interest, to be rational, to choose his own values, and that those values cannot be predicted. Why? Why can't they be predicted? Well, because we have free will. Not because the central plan is not smart enough, but because we have free will. And you can't model free will. You can replicate free will on a computer. You can't do it better. But again, conservatives, libertarians, many, many people out there, you know, they that's not their defensive capitalism, that's not their approach to capitalism. That's not how they think about capitalism. So the world has moved leftwards. The world has moved leftwards. Not just because we didn't defend capitalism in 2008. You know, I did. I, I, everywhere I could, at every opportunity I could, and every event that I could, on every TV station that would take me, on every radio station that would take me, I tried to defend capitalism as best that I could. But I was a lone voice out there. The conservatives, the libertarians, and the business community did not defend capitalism. And to a large extent, they did not defend capitalism because they could not. Because they did not have the tools. They do not have the tools. They do not believe in capitalism. They do not believe in self-interest. They do not believe in egoism. They do not have the moral basis on which, or the epistemological basis, the philosophical basis on which to defend capitalism. And that's why we moved to the left. We moved to the left because yes, all the problems are being blamed on capitalism. 2008 was blamed on capitalism. And there was no defense. But I would say there was no defense after the Great Depression other than Ayn Rand, maybe Milton Friedman of Von Mises, but basically Ayn Rand. After the Great Society, after the inflation of the 70s, how many people stood up and said, no, no, no, the Reagan Revolution is not capitalism. It's just a refinement of the of the mixed economy. And then by the financial crisis, yeah, Alan Greenspan said this is a failure of capitalism. This is a failure of markets. George Bush said we have to abandon capitalism in order to save it. And it's over. It's over. And what we're seeing today is a I think a lunge of the American public to the left. I really don't see how we get out of that. It's on the right. It's on the left. It's depressing. You know, and one of the signs of that is the now resurgence of Marxism. Marxism is now you know, back. It's sexy. Socialism is back. It's sexy as Venezuela is occurring right before our eyes. There's another socialist state implodes. Marxists are coming out of the woodwork. Marxists to everywhere. Socialists everywhere to make the case for socialist Marxist agenda. I was reading this article in Vox. Why are millennials why are millennials burned out? Question mark. The answer is capitalism turns out this new book by a guy named Malcolm Harris called Kids These Days. Human capital and the making of millennials where he argues that the millennials are bearing the brunt of the economic damage wrought by late 20th century capitalism. Not late 20th century mixed economy. Late 20th century capitalism. We haven't differentiated ourselves from the mixed economy. You ever said no. The late 20th century was not characterized by capitalism was characterized by the mixed economy and and it's the socialism within their mixtures created the problems. He says all these insecurities and the material conditions that produced them have thrown millennials into a state of perpetual panic. It's generations quote generations are characterized by crisis. Then ours is the crisis of extreme capitalism. Extreme the problem today is extreme capitalism. I mean what a joke if you understand anything about what capitalism is. Now this Malcolm Harris it turns out is a Marxist. He in an interview here you write well I take I take a very Marxist perspective on the world and later you write he says I think it's curious you know the problems of capitalism as as the problem of whoops I've lost him where did you say this here it is Marxist would refer to this as an increase in the rate of exploitation meaning workers are working longer harder and more efficiently but are receiving less and less in return. I reference Marxism here because conventional American economics don't really have the term for this. It's not something they like to talk about because they don't recognize that capitalism is built on exploitation. I mean yeah I mean this is really bringing Marxism back you know Marxism was deemed unsexy but now it's back it's popular it's sexy it's cool this book is going to be a bestseller or is a bestseller.  Somebody's going to pay you more that's how markets work there's competition for labor but you know these people don't understand markets they don't understand what's going on they distort the data they you know make it up if they have to as as Thomas Piketty did quite a bit and they tell us the story about how awful the world is how the middle class has been left behind how life sucks for the middle class and by the way all of this is not the result of the mixed economy maybe the lack of capital investment because that capital is being taxed away from the producers it's not because of the redistribution of wealth and the disincentive of people to work it's not all the licensing laws to reduce the number of entrepreneurs in the economy and therefore reduce the number of productive jobs no it's none of those things it's extreme capitalism that we have today which is a problem so you know that I'm not going to give the full argument around about this I'm going to although I'm going to probably do it tomorrow night because I'm sure this issue is going to come up in in my debate about inequality at Eaton but what I want to point out is is the left today is happy to dredge up Marx is happy to self identify itself as socialist when is the right going to be willing or the free marketeers put aside right left when are those who promote free markets really willing to cite and quote and advocate for the greatest defend of capitalism in human history when are they gonna bring out iron ran the only consistent defend of capitalism in human history when are they gonna bring it iron ran the one mall defense of capitalism that exists when are they gonna figure out their attempt to use Christianity their attempt to use altruism their attempt to use collectivism their attempt to use conventionality to defend capitalism has failed when are they gonna have their balls the guts to actually revert to the thinker who could actually defend capitalism the left jumps on the opportunity to quote Marx jumps on identifying itself as socialist and they know what socialism is talk about what says knows what socialism is she intends to implement it on a grand scale you know it might be closer to fascism but at the end of the day it's going to be statism government intervention the economy redistribution of wealth she knows exactly what she's doing Elizabeth war knows exactly what she's doing when when are those defenders of the free market can embrace capitalism not the mixed economy but capitalism real capitalism real free market free of government intervention free of government regulation free of government controls when are they gonna embrace that and embrace the thinker who most represents laissez-fait capitalism who most defended laissez-fait capitalism who most inspired people to think about laissez-fait capitalism and that's Ain Rand Peggy Newton's no fan of Ain Rand Donald Trump certainly isn't stand out for a real self-interest based defense of capitalism and until we're willing to do that until there are enough of us until businessmen who are still expected in this country are willing to stand up and not be mealing mouthed about their wealth and not be mealing mouthed about the system that allowed them to create that wealth but businessmen standing up proudly and declaring that they built it that it's theirs that they don't owe anybody anything that is unchosen that they do not have moral duties that they stand by the system of laissez-fait capitalism consistently and they stand by the ethics of self-interest consistently and that they admire Ain Rand if you had a hundred or a thousand John Allison's John Allison the C.O.B.B.T. then yeah then the battle would be over then the left would be crushed we need those businessmen but to have those businessmen we need the intellectuals and if we have the intellectuals and we have the businessmen then we'll get the politicians so it doesn't surprise me that politicians are not advocating for this cannot 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Welcome folks, we at the Dow Industrial finished down 173, and as I got 167 S&Ps off 42 gold. Gold contract down $36.20 at $16.72 an ounce. We had silver down 41 cents, $19.15 an ounce, light sweet crew down $3.20, $85.28 a barrel, notes and bonds. They just keep going, man. The 10-year, down 14 ticks, $114.16, the 30-year, off $18 at $1.31.13, and you have to have right now that 10-year is at all-time highs for the year, with $3.455. And if we take a look at the 30-year, you're going to see $3.479, you know. And then if you take a look at the curve, you're going to hear lots about the curve because, let me put this over here so you can see this curve, this curve is insane, man. So it costs more money to borrow money at two years than it does at 30 years. 30 years is 4.55, no, 10 years is 4.55, 30 is 3.47. Two years is 3.8. Three years is 3.85, and then it starts going back down again. So what that's looking in there, the bond market is saying that the Fed will drive us into a recession and they'll have to start going down sometime in basically two-and-a-half to three years from now. My take is that you're going to have the Fed fund rate get up to about four-and-a-half percent, and right now you're at two-and-a-half. And I suspect what we're going to see in the minutes, so first you get the Fed coming out, what are they going to do is at 75 basis points. That's in the first meeting. The next two meetings, before the end of the year, are going to be crucial.  Are they going to just really get down to it, get down to the four-and-a-half and then go from there? You know, we'll see. We're going to take a look at the spy out here today, the bottom line, did it get volume at the end? We're going to have high volume tomorrow, man, so there's going to be a trip. What we did, we got plenty of volume, but it didn't break the B point. That being said, the NDX100 is a confirmed ABC structure down. NDX broke the B, has volume behind the move, well, let's see, 62, yeah, we needed 57, we got 62. The B point was 290, 87, and you went to the 289, 46-year close, the 290, 110, though, see, you might still get a bounce out of this. Have a great one, folks, have a safe one, come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, kicks us off 9 o'clock in the morning, great show, folks. Well, look at him, folks, sharpening your skill.


Scorchers versus renegades in the big bash league and I'm gonna need everyone's help making a call on this play Let me know in the comments what you would rule it if it was your decision I did a lot of edits to give you all the info you need We got kick save and a beauty.    I think you're out though.  So here's the slow-mo replay So see the guy the runner the partner. He's taking kind of his lead, right? So think of running bases or any bases. It's that crease that white line He's watching the ball making sure it gets delivered And then he's gonna take a little bit of a walking lead very normal The ball gets hammered back up the middle and then did it hit his shoe Into the stumps They these two sure reacted like it did.  They must have heard it or seen it or something But judging by their reactions, it seems like it did. Now look at this replay Because that batter has left the crease And it deflects off the player Into the wicket. It's like a runout even though he didn't throw the ball. It still counts all the same Which I don't I don't know if it should Um, you can do that on purpose, but I don't know if this one was now This is like the only replay angle they had to go off You guys tell me Do you think that deviates after hitting his foot?  Does it reverse spin after hitting his foot? Does it change direction after hitting his foot? What do you got? Do you think it hit his foot? What would you rule it if you were the third umpire?    Just thank you Thank you toe gives him a nice kiss comes up fist pumps the crowd We did it me and my toe and then look at this smile. That's the guy who kisses his feet


Yoga, Yoga, Ishwara, Bhutabha, Shiva, Shivaasa, Shambha, Shivaa, Shivaasa, Shambha, Shambha, Shivaa, Shivaasa, Kalidare Visha, Kalidare Visha, Vashankarant, Shivaa, Shankar, Adi, Anant, Jaya, Jaya. Namaskaram. Namaskaram to everyone. The figures around the world are selling or speaking a very dire language. The worst hit country in the world has now become United States with over a quarter million confirmed virus cases. Fortunately, I would say it is kind of localized in a couple of states more than the rest of the country, which could be a good chance for the nation to control this situation. It's not spread across the fifty states. This is the time to really hit the brakes. Italy has slowed down a bit. Spain is still going full speed. UK, picking up speed. India also has piked. Still the numbers are small for its population. Seventy-seven fatalities, seventy-seven lives are not small. But in times like this, we are looking at it as a fortune that it's only seventy-seven. Because such a densely populated nation, it could go wild. But I think we've hit the brakes well ahead of time. Holding it there is important. Because once these things pick up speed, then it'll become uncontrollable. It once happened. Shankaran Pillai was living in Tennessee and he traveled up north. And he was driving on highway eighty-nine. A policeman pulled him over and he said, you clearly over-speeding or twenty-five miles above the speeding limit. He was doing ninety. He said, no, I am not speeding, I just now saw the board. It said eighty-nine. I'm just doing ninety. So the policeman said, I'm glad I stopped you right here because in other two miles you will be entering highway 301. It's very important we stop it when still it's not picked up speed and momentum. In India we have put the brakes early on. It's showing results except for a few irresponsible stuff happening here and there. Largely a phenomenal response from the people of India. We must congratulate every one of them. Well, those of you who are here at the yoga center or those of you who have the necessary space in terms of your own private gardens and stuff, those at the yoga center both here and in United States are fortunate because there's enormous space. But if you're stuck in a two-bedroom apartment with four people and you can't get out, it could tell on you various kinds of problems start happening. You know, however nice people are, when there is no space and they start breathing down each other's necks, it can get a little... People thought work is a problem, but now they're all realizing work is a great thing. Rest is a problem, home is a problem. So this is not to make fun of people, but with all these difficulties, largely majority of the population has behaved with immense responsibility and a sense of purpose. And of course today, they're all lighting a lamp to show that they are with the nation in handling these challenging times. Well, in the last century at least or maybe never before actually, globally, never before we have faced such a situation. Pandemics or epidemics have happened in localized areas, wiping out populations. Thanks to modern travel that today whatever happens anywhere goes across the world. So because of that, it's global now. Nearly two-thirds of the world is shut down. People are trying to look at the benefits of that. Definitely there are, one can use it for their own well-being. They say other creatures are very happy. People are posting images of whales and dolphins and of course you saw the peacock and like this many, many things. All that is true, but that should happen even when we are out. That is how we should be out gently, not stomping around the planet. Well, the statistics of over sixty-five thousand dead doesn't tell the whole story. They're expecting. Some of the estimates in the United States is saying in the next two weeks, anywhere between hundred to two hundred thousand people could die. So the numbers that you see right now doesn't really give you a whole picture of what it is. Everything depends on how responsibly every one of us behave. Little loose behavior will cost us immensely. At times like this, we should use statistics. As a drunk, a man who is very drunk, how he uses a lamppost, not for elimination, just support, just like that. Statistics are not everything. They give us a little sense of where it's going, but doesn't tell us the whole story. If we have identified a quarter million people in a country, there could be another two million who are already infected that will come out. Well, they're making calculations. All these calculations can go wrong. All depends on how responsibly citizens of this world behave, what they do in the next few weeks. In the next three to four weeks, as a generation of people, what we do on this planet will determine what will be the cost of this pandemic. How huge, how hefty will be the cost or how light it will be will be determined by what human beings do in the next three to four weeks. So, here we are. Fifth of April, today, India has called for a moment of solidarity. Maybe some of you don't call nine minutes as a moment. In the life of a nation, nine minutes is a moment. So, people are trying to read all kinds of meanings to it. The most important thing is to understand, it doesn't matter whether we clapped our hands or we pointed our hand at the finger, at the sky, a finger at the sky, we did this, we did that, that's not the point. It's just that nation stood up as one and did something which is of tremendous value. I must tell you this story, this was one of Mark Twain's favorite stories. This happened a little over hundred and fifty years ago. When nobody had imagined that one day people could even aspire to go to the moon. So, they had a feeling that there are people on the moon. And, of course, we want to talk to them, you know, because we are not on talking terms with our neighbors. At least the moon people, we want to talk to them. So, they all came up with the plan. The entire planet got together and they decided, every one of us at nine o'clock in the night, we will come out and it's a full moon day. In one single voice, all of us will say, who? We want to ask them, who are you? But it'll be too garbled and you need a conductor to get it right. So, we will just say one word, who? And when all of us use all the lung power we have, except we will exempt those with corona infections. They have no lung power. All of us, if we use all our lung power, of course they will hear. And let's see what they say. So, nine o'clock, full month, everybody all over the world came out of their homes as nine o'clock was just coming, I thought, you know, who am I? I'm just a small person and my voice is not even big. She is there, big voice. He is there, very big voice. They are all there, such great people with big voices. Me, even with microphone, doesn't go very far. So, if I don't say who, what does it matter? They're all there, such big people, all wonderful people are there. But it's an extraordinary moment. Entire humanity uttering one word in unison. So, I wanted to experience that moment. So, I decided, I don't have to say it, they will all say it, big, big people are there. Who am I? I'm nothing. That moment came and it passed off as a silent moment on the planet because this is the problem with most human beings.  Who am I? I'm nothing. When they have to get something, they will become very big. So, tonight don't do this trick on the country. After all, who am I? Let me see, everybody will light the lamp. Let me see, you will see darkness. It's you who must do it. Don't worry about other people. You must do it. Others we will see. Don't worry about others. You must do. If you have some influence on a few people, you must make sure they also do. But if your word is such, if you say it, nobody will do it, then don't say anything. So, today nine o'clock, let's make it into a spectacular event. Forget about anything. Whole nation lighting up a lamp is fantastic. Country will look nice from the satellites. Please come out and light the lamp. If you cannot come out, you don't have a balcony, you don't have a garden, you don't have nothing, light it in your house, but light a lamp. There are many other benefits to it, we can talk to you about it later. Questions? Sadhguru, this question is from Karunesh. Namaskaram, Sadhguru. You have spoken in so many prestigious and globally recognized institutes, organizations and conferences. But still, there is a segment of yellow media which constantly dislikes you and dishes out most unreasonable and baseless trash against you. Why do you attract such inciderate criticism which no other spiritual leader in the country attracts? See, look at who I am, that's why. Well, say this is mango season, the tree is full of fruit. This is mango season. Only that tree which is full of fruit gets the maximum amount of stones, worms, insects, everything. Your tree with a thawney tree doesn't have a fruit. Who will throw a stone at you? Nobody will throw a stone at you. Nobody wants to waste a stone for you.  So that is an indication. It's a barometer, it's a thermometer that you have fruit. That's why I'm using the word thermometer intentionally. Right now it's the most valued thing. Everybody is asking, where is the thermometer? Not enough thermometers. So these people have been going at us for the last 27 years, all local, only nowhere else, only local stuff. I must tell you this, probably many of you do not know about these things. What has been the nature of this kind of stuff going on? This is in 1995, 1994. We have moved in here about sixty-five, seventy of us. Very... What to say? Very fiery, determined group of people and nothing, only one hut was there. Just one hut in which we are all living, one long hut. Only ladies have toilets, men are all going into the forest. At that time, some people are sitting in the mountains and looking at us with binoculars. Well, I'm... you know, this is my problem. If I just look like this, I see everything that's around me. I don't miss anything. That is also a lot of problem. Because if you're blind, people will have compassion. If you can see, they're envious of you. So I saw binoculars flashing. Then I asked, who is this binoculars flashing? In this mountain, obviously it's directed towards us. So I sent our volunteers, who is this? Somebody must be here. Okay, some jeeps were parked here, found it. So we tried to talk to them. They were not willing to talk to us and tell us who they are. But they went out and spread all kinds of things in the town. They said, we saw in the binoculars, they are crazy, they are... they must be using drugs, they must be doing this, they must be doing that. The problem was people were freely poaching into the forest. After we came, we put a stop to that, that became a big issue. So this committed group of people who had their hobbies and their little businesses going based on the forest products got really messy with us. They hired media. Not the mainstream media, there is another kind of media which doesn't run on advertisement or the revenue that they get by selling their journals because nobody buys them. Even if you give it free, people won't use it.  Of course it can't be toilet paper because it's already soiled. This is going on. So, you know, there is a railway track from Sakalishpur to Mangalore. A 36-kilometer stretch, meter gauge railway track. Now I think they converted to broad gauge. In this 36 kilometers, there are over 100 tunnels and 300 bridges. So I had trekked this railway track a few times myself. So I had spoken to our people here and I said we should all go there once. So those days there is no temple yet, no compulsions for us. So we closed down our ashram. Closing down the ashram means what? There is no door to lock. It's just a hut, but we tied a rope. And buildings were just coming up. Triangle of building was just coming up at that time. So we decided we will go for a about twelve-thirteen day trek. So all of us went off, leaving the ashram. You can't imagine those times and now how we are. We could just close the ashram and go somewhere. So we went for a trek. After about twelve-thirteen days, we had to come back. By about ninth, tenth day people started calling us because we are in the media, big time. Why means we have killed somebody and buried them here and we have all left. Well, who did we kill? We did not know. Then we came back. By then, big buzz all over. Oh, they killed somebody and they've buried in the forest and gone. Well, of course this trash prints it, all this stuff.  So these people made up the story that we killed somebody and we've left the place. So from then on it started. They're still going on with the same stories or similar stories. We've moved on, come a long way, but they are unfortunately in the same place.   The first batch of brahmacharis came. I told all the male brahmacharis, fifteen days you must go and serve in a old age home. All the female brahmacharinis, I told them you must go and serve in a children's home. So we found a children's home in Coimbatore, which was run by a old lady. I had stayed in the children's home earlier when I came to Coimbatore. Very rudimentary place. They went and stayed there. The food was very poor. Three of our brahmacharinis, three or four or five of them I think. The food was very poor and all of them fell ill. They had severe bouts of vomiting and diarrhea. So three of them had to be admitted in a local nursing home. Immediately this same media writes, so these people from the Isha Yoga Center, brahmacharinis have all come for an abortion in a nursing home. These are the people who want to do with them. They live in filth and sell filth. Because it doesn't sell, they have also realized once in three months if they put my photograph on their cow page, their rag sells a bit. It's their livelihood.  I wish they find better ways to do it. So it doesn't matter because I have consciously made myself like this that you can either love me or hate me. You cannot be in between because I don't like the in-between people.  They're just trying to make a living out of you. Parasite existence. Well, at least in these times of virus I hope they realize, but no, now they're making a controversy about the virus also. That virus originated from Isha Yoga Center. See, some of you were upset when I said, when I used the word want, but now our media is reporting virus originated from Isha Yoga Center. Not the mainstream media. Most responsible media is not doing that of any kind. But this trash is doing this. There are, you know, four page, five page articles. I'm on the cover page of this. I don't know why this kind of journalism was referred to as yellow, maybe because it's shitty. So I am on the cover page of these magazines once again. Sir, Guru, the next question is from Jordan. Namaskaram, sir. There has been an increase in calls on smoker hotline from tobacco smokers trying to quit their habit. Despite their best intention, it is physically very difficult to quit because of their addiction to nicotine. Sadhguru, what are your recommendations for those people in their struggle? Well, this is not me. The medical experts are saying that the virus, if you get it, smokers die first. That should be a cure. I am not trying to be cruel to you. I am not somebody who is moralistic and say you should not smoke. I am not even looking at it as a moral issue as some people look at it. It's just that doing something that's against your system is senseless. Another thing is, suppose you form some pleasure in that and you're doing it, it's okay. I'll leave it to you. But the biggest problem for me is that you become compulsive about simple things in life. That is a big problem for me. You smoking, that's not a big issue for me. You're doing something compulsively. This is a big issue because you're throwing away the evolutionary benefits that this human being has that he can do everything consciously. But you are choosing to compulsively do something what you might have picked up as a fad or as a pleasure, as a simple pleasure in your life. You like tobacco, you like to smoke. I'm not coming in the way. All I'm saying is, don't throw away the evolutionary benefit because this Mother Earth and nature has worked for a million years to get you to this level of awareness, consciousness and intelligence, this size of brain. When people are using their brains today to see how to make a car that doesn't smoke, you're still smoking, what is that? Once in a way you wanted to smoke because you enjoy that. I will leave that. I will not enter your personal life to that extent. Well, it doesn't make sense but everything need not make sense. It's okay, but you're compulsive. That, no, no.  Literally. Now should I give it up, should I give it up? What is there to give up? See, if smoke was coming out of your ears, you should go for treatment, something burning inside. But you're taking it in and you're blowing it out. There is no treatment, you just have to make up your mind.  No, no, no, I'm not being gender prejudiced. Women also can smoke, of course. Oh, what makes you think only men can smoke?   Only thing is, stupidity takes on many forms of hurting various lives.  Though there is physical pain and many other things involved, still you choose to hurt this one. This is not happening by choice. You might have started by choice, but after some time it's just one big compulsion. You, I want to give it up, I want to give it up, don't do all this. If you forcefully give it up, you will start doing some other crazy thing. This once happened. Shankaran Pillai one day was just leaving the office and his office colleague, a young woman, asked him, can you please drop me home today? He said, yes, it's like a gentleman, he took her, he opened the door, everything, they were driving. When a lonely stretch of road came, he stopped. And suddenly he became like an octopus. That means he had eight limbs. He was all over her.  What are you doing? He said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I quit smoking. So you don't do these things forcefully. If you understand, if you are beginning to understand that we are understanding that a bus which smokes heavily is not good, a car that smokes is not good. But in the evolution of an automobile, they are still in that place where they still have to smoke. Not all of them have become electric. In the evolution of an automobile, still smoke is all right. We are working towards a smokeless one, but still smoke is all right because the evolution of an automobile has still not reached that place where it's totally smokeless. But the evolution of this became very smokeless. Long time ago, it throws out carbon dioxide this is its nature. But now you want to inhale carbon monoxide or whatever it is.  Once you see something is stupid, you don't have to give it up, it'll go. Right now, you're feeling little... you think it's very smart to do this.   Don't be one. Nine o'clock, let's light up. Not a cigarette, huh? Yoga, yoga, yoga ishvaraya Bhuta, bhuta, bhuta ishvaraya Alakalakal ishvaraya Shiva, Shiva, Sarveshvaraya Shambha, Shambha, Mahadeva