Staying the Course: Part II - Zeitgeist Europe '09

[MrKaniyaw]

Let me put it simply, there is a problem with the financial system and some of the top guys responsible are still in their places. according to Wikipedia Nassim has actually been threatened with his life because of his outspokenness on the abuses by major financial institutions.There seem to be a cap on the box not allowing any progress because the cap is at the maximum advantageous point and any move would make it worse.

[MrKaniyaw]

The IQ example is 100% true. Everything in life runs in up,down,circular and indeed unpredictable ways, and yet the entire educational system is linear and that is where people are brainwashed into taking up ideas and stretching them in a linear dimension.As a student and someone who has actually been involved with business from childhood I do believe education has as much damage as advantages. Evolution is the true way of describing things with unpredictable leaps forth or backward .

[jazerazo]

Nassim starts talking at 2:45....

[HillcrestCapital]

Chystia Freeland - Would hit [x] Wouldn't hit [ ]

[sleepless4201]

Youtube needs to unfuck itself and start loading videos. Is this website run from a third world country?

[p0intblanksnipe]

All you need to know about global economics is capitalism is bad

[TheLonelyWarrior1]

lol, "i don't understand world economics, so I'll support socialism!"

herpderp motherfuckers, the world isn't ready for socialism yet.

[baglemonkey]

ian bremmer why is a jew ALWAYS critiqueing whites??? the answer is in the book by kevin macdonald the CULTURE OF CRITIQUE must read book on why the jew behaves like a jew. thier interests are NOT your interest, and they know that but YOU DON'T.

[redarrowhead2]

@baglemonkey bremmer is not jewish you dumb nazi

[MrKaniyaw]

@baglemonkey / the mere fact you crtisize people like this makes you stupid. The jews MOST have a formula which makes them successful in a DEMOCRATIC society, what stops christians and muslims to do likewise? Understand things , as Nassim says when he told statistiancs what is not working tyhey were unhappy and this should be the opposite, because when people tell you this doesn't work it means they teach you something good. I actually admire the jews for being able without using guns to run tis

[KMTlondon]

This is alright

[uteplats]

@eurozeitgeist Too bad this is uploaded with only one audio channel, makes it unwatchable with headphones.

[supriya55]

he maybe arrogant, or controversial or whatever.. but i love this guy! he's genuinely perceptive and interesting.

[nikalazify]

do we really need another journalist moderating this?

[todnyc]

Taleb's point (7:00) about economists having been so blind to a looming crisis is just NOT true: there were PLENTY of American economists decrying Bush's insanely lopsided economic policies and overhauls ever since he was proposing them when he ran for prez in 2000! Even The Onion pointed it out! Furthermore, "black swan" has become a new buzzword in intellectual discourse, but the concept of massively disruptive events shaping history is HARDLY new. Taleb is an uninspiring, long-winded buffoon.

[todnyc]

Also, Ian Bremmer quotes a Chinese official saying (at 26:55) saying that the Western economic model has "failed." That's classic.

What he is ACTUALLY referring to is the failure of the neo-conservative/Bush economic model. America is still remaining VERY much a capitalist economy, regardless of all the hopes and fears expressed by extremist loudmouths on both the right and the left in the US media.

[hybreedu]

Well, I do believe he's mostly speaking about the people who make policy and make business decisions. I agree that 'black swan' has become a bit overused in some places. And about the last thing, I really think that's his main point, but the people that talk about them have been ignored.