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We go through the Greek economic collapse, post World War II reconstruction, negative interest rates, structural contradictions of shareholder capitalism, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged , the Cato institute, the concept of risk, Benghazi, Edward Snowden ("Sometimes in American history, some of the greatest men we've had, they had to break the law"), the 2008 crash and subsequent bailout, books he recommends ( Currency Wars , Antifragile , Albion's Seed ), Japanese economic stagnation, debt (he compares public indifference to the world debt situation with the willful denial of those who carried on partying in Pompeii in the shadow of an active volcano), Brexit, mythical European electric teapot regulations, immigration policy, terrorism, mandatory energy-efficient lightbulbs, refugees, self-driving technology, and the future of everything: "It's possible that this is what it looks likeshit's hitting the fanwhen societies are cratering
