tons of americans believe in astrology and ufo's that make me not want them to make decisions for me. >> host: what does the constitution say? >> guest: no. democracy is not mentioned. i disagree with the founders i think they have a rosy view what it would be like. no one thought that democracy specifically centralized federal democracy and had never imagined that. he would be surprised when i told my parents the book i was writing but you don't think of the democracy as the process as moral but something that is positive meaning freedom but democracy at -- democracy in russia and elsewhere does not manifest into liberty. what was your original question? >> what does the constitution say about democracy? [laughter] >> to people across the political spectrum? >> i was going to say you'd be surprised how many i will give you an example. a lot of people want people in the federal reserve to open up their files to participate but can you imagine having everyone talk about the federal reserve? they understand why things are happening but some people know more about something we have to al

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the astrological sign of taurus began on sun. it's based on the belief that the position and rotations of the moon, sun and other planets give clues to human relationships and fate. thousands of papers print horoscopes because three-quarters of readers admit to flipping to check on daily fortunes. that started with the sunday express, august 24, 1930, when it printed a horo scope to mark the birth of princess margaret. avt rollogical references date back 4,000 years, and later in the second tentury tolomy broadened the study of stars to foretell the tale of copyings to everyone. when pern. >> ca was discovered to circle the sun, it took a hit. it made a comeback with fortune tellers and sayances. avt rolling any is big business. 1200 people work at it full-time in the u.s. jonathan cainer reportedly makes $two and a half million from his avt roll ogey related businesses. there's a history of scams with cases of people losing money, acting on advice from psychics. no wonder fortune telling is a crime in new york,less under the guy

de medici created an elegant society where artists and scholars studied astrology and mythology, revivingntiquity for their private pleasure. cosimo commissioned the humanist ficino to translate the works of plato, and out of this intellectual climate came the paintings of botticelli, combining sensuality of pagan mythology with themes and images from christian art. in his painting of the primavera, zephyrus, the wind god, enters the scene and seizes the wood nymph chloris, whose mouth issues flowers as she is transformed into flora, the goddess of spring. in the center stands a figure who sembles both the christian madonna and venus, the goddess of love, and who directs the dance of the three graces. naked venus, seen here in botticelli's the birth of venus, symbolized divine love. this was a nude based on classical forms, which also suggests a baptism and a rebirth. [colin eisler] in renaissance florence, the nude again became the focus of artistic effort. donatello's david, probably commissioned by de medici, with its obvious reflection of the roman past, is a masterpiece of technical

activist, astrologer and three times convict. >> everyone i has met has been to prison. >> this happenss in myanmar. >> almost six years? >> nearly six years. all the judgments are made by the kangaroo court and the army, and the three officers sitting together, they read off, this is your sentence. it happens only minutes, like that. >> what is life like inside prison. >> nice, nice, very nice. >> i have a hard time believing that. >> we can talk to each other, say manage, use a mirror to look at each other? >> books? >> no books, no writing things, no paper. no, nothing at all. a mat and a blanket and a plate and a bowl. >> right. >> only things are the things that we possess. >> how is the food in prison? >> soup. pea soup. only one meat meal for a week. that's on thursday. you know that in prison, all the -- nobody, only the head of the fish and the tail. no middle part. >> so there is hope for this country, in your view. yes? >> yes, yes. the buddhists believe how to live in situations, dictators, political passion, or even discrimination, everything is happening to us, but the bud

writers are consulted as if they were prophets or astrologers.ey are supposed to know everything. in a way, it makes sense. it is such a complicated and weird continent that latin america is, somehow, writers summarize our reality. the collective dreams and hopes, fears. history, us back our which is usually magical. >> to you remember when you first read, "one hundred years of solitude." >> the novel was published in 1967. i read it a year later. i had given birth to my son nicholas, who was born in 1966. i had gone back to work and was working in a women's magazine. i remember when i read the book. i did not go to work. i just sat there with a book until i finished it. it was as if someone was telling me my own story. it was my family, my country, the people i knew. magicalhere was nothing about it. it was my grandmother. i also grew up in the house of my grandparents as he did. the story just heard about his manuscript, sending it in two batches because he could not afford -- the same happened with "the house of the spirits" many years later.

fellow journalism student and astrologer, who insisted on doing my birth chart, told me that as an extreme sagittarian, i was destined to become a preacher, teacher, or journalist. i guess i combined all three. i have always had a fascination for the role that religion plays in public life, particularly in america, where it is richly paradoxical, the nation with the soul of the church, where religion and politics are intimate bedfellows, and where the separation of church and state remain sacrosanct. i studied that, with the emphasis on the then powerful religious right, and i continue to do so as a reporter. being a religion reporter was just like being a student, learning something new everyday, extending my horizons. only there were no exams. i got to travel widely, and the pay was better. as one of two people in my left-leaning king's college leading the unfashionable religious studies, i was often asked at parties by many british students, why i would choose such a subject. was it because i wanted to become a nun? being a priest was not an option, though it was about to become one. a

astrology comes in to become doesn't? astronomy, or one of those?ave all been accused of being space cadets. [laughter] >> we forget about this. it is a big deal. i wonder if it has to do with the cold -- is it spring yet? what it is spring, and there too.be el nino, >> now el niÑo does have impact. agricultural commodity prices. >> how do you play the drought in the western united states? >> it typically pushes up grain prices and -- going back to my old days. commodity prices with the australian dollar stronger in the little bit of a bit in commodities recently? >> you have to believe the u.s. dollar would have to weaken to generate that. according to a survey, 90% of clients believed the u.s. dollar would strengthen. >> but they are always wrong. it generally has been a better thing to follow the crowd and not fight it. this will continue conversation on equity assets and other assets because we will show you a new way to look at equity bubbles. this is "bloomberg surveillance" right here on bloomberg television. streaming on your tablet, smartph