Juggling Dynamite

In my personal experience with family addiction, there is much truth in this talk.

What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do — and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem. Here is a direct video link.

Oppenheimer & Co.’s Fadel Gheit discusses the collapse in oil prices and the probable impact of lifting sanctions on Iran. Here is a direct video link.

China is a particularly garish example of central planning and finance theory gone completely bonkers, but it is also a study of human behavior and prominent thinking in varying degrees, everywhere today. Andy Xie is a rare economist: schooled and still wise enough to connect the dots: “Every cycle you lose money quicker than the last.”

Andy Xie, an independent economist, talks about China’s measures to reverse the stock market rout that began last month.Here is a direct video link.