idea of super abundance is, it occurred to us when we were looking at this original bet between julie simon and paul. if you remember that back in the 19 80s, you had paul, who had written a population. it was this book that painted a dystopian future that england wouldn't exist, we were going to start of. there was an economist who picked up the book, read it, and initially thought in three you could model, it seems like it makes sense. maybe i should go back and look at the data, see what the data says about resources, how abundant resources are. as an economist, i look at the price of resources. if something is running out, it should be getting more expensive. what julian simon found was that the price of these things wasn't going up, they were going down. how could you have something that was becoming more scarce, it was becoming cheaper. he begins to research other things, he starts looking at these non renewable metals like copper. he extended it to lumber and all of these other resources. what he observed is that as population increases, these prices, these resources actually went do

that line was dramatically upended on the morning of july the 5th, by lord simon mcdonald, former headd thatjohnson had been briefed in person about pincher�*s previous predatory behaviour. i know that the senior official briefed the prime minister in person because that official told me so at the time. i think they need to come clean. that afternoon, having refused to answer questions about the pincher affair, the prime minister gave a mea culpa to the bbc. i think it was a bad mistake of mine to appoint chris pincher to the government and i regret it and ijust want to make it absolutely clear that there is no place in this government for anyone who abuses their position of power. minutes after the tv interview went out, two senior ministers resign from the cabinet in quick succession — health secretary sajid javid and chancellor rishi sunak. both said they no longer trusted the prime minister. we have to conclude that enough is enough. the number of departures from across government reached over 60 — a record. reporter: is it all. over, prime minister? how many resignations it take?

simone. coming up this week it's the first hearing since july. we talk a congresswoman zoloft in about what they want the american city to know before the investigation wraps up. republicans release the midterm elections. the so-called commitment to america, president biden calls a threat to women. it's also just business as usual to the republican party and we are back with our culture critics today. we are launching the regroup for culture critics. it will dive into the group chats in the nfl halftime show. and who we just learned to his performing after this photo was posted instagram. i'm simone and i have something to say. after almost two months out of the public eye of the house select committee investigating january six it is ready to present more information to the american people. the next public hearing is on wednesday. thompson says they have significant witness testimony that we haven't seen yet. we know the committee has gathered more information since july and we have now learned from the vice chair of the committee that this will

simone. coming up this week it's the first hearing since july.know before the investigation wraps up. republicans release the midterm elections. the so-called commitment to america, president biden calls a threat to women. it's also just business as usual to the republican party and we are back with our culture critics today. we are launching the regroup for