cully davis with us. coming up, we will speck with the co-author of angry-no, ma'amics. despite never being richer, the world has never seemed more angry. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: in a new book, they argue the combination of macro economic and stresses of daily life have combined to produce a world that is increasingly unequal. all of this coming before the pandemic. here to discuss this book is the co-author of angrynomics, mark blyth. he's also the director at brown's center for economic and finance. what a time to talk about this, what a time to put out your book. you argue despite never being richer on average, the world has never seemed more angry. can you talk to us about how you are looking at the better ways of finding life balance, practical proposals that could be applied to this post covid world? mark: we just missed a huge opportunity to do this. when you think about the covid crisis, investors panicked. when they panic, they dump equities and want to hold safe assets like government bonds. it is 20 years out of the negative rate. imagine if we use that