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. > joining us brian leavitt. nice to have you here tonight. >> thank you.ice to be back. >> pou make thent we are still in a long-term bull market. there's more to go. why do you feel that way? >> yes, i mean investors need to get used to the fact that this is a slow growth world without a lot of inflation. what that means is even though this cycle has been going on for a long time, we haven't built a lot of excesses in the economy. we're not seeing the inflation thrings forward fed interest rate hikes, and it is very rare for cycles to end without oo series of interest rate hikes. the reason why the markets have beenesponding the way they have in recent days is because the fed has backed down off their tightening sta,e. you kn with valuations where they are and the global economy okay, this could go on a lot longer than people suspect. >> and, in fact, you are among tose who feel fed will cut rates maybe a couple of times this yea before the end of the year. i'm curious, you know, fed chair jerome powell reminded everybody yesterday of the fed's dua mandat
. > joining us brian leavitt. nice to have you here tonight. >> thank you.ice to be back. >> pou make thent we are still in a long-term bull market. there's more to go. why do you feel that way? >> yes, i mean investors need to get used to the fact that this is a slow growth world without a lot of inflation. what that means is even though this cycle has been going on for a long time, we haven't built a lot of excesses in the economy. we're not seeing the inflation thrings...
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also try and offer terms buttons unbelievable life into believe a bull fiction resident but david leavitt's has more on our continuing series 100 just. hated to put the hotelier because of the one with the roof actually you know i really need a new profile pic what about the one with the infinity pool. and . what was travel like before their world like in the 19th century travel wasn't fun it was dangerous and time consuming back then to richard francis burton was the ultimate traveler or as author earlier train of calls him the collector of worlds when burton travels to india as a british officer he dives into the kama sutra he learns new languages he even tries to speak to monkeys as a european burton isn't allowed to join the pilgrimage to mecca but that's no skin off his nose actually to pass as a muslim the skin has to come off somewhere else. you can disguise yourself as much as you want but you'll never learn what it's like to be one of us you can take off your disguise at any time but we are imprisoned in our skin fasting is not the same as starving. the collector of world is about
also try and offer terms buttons unbelievable life into believe a bull fiction resident but david leavitt's has more on our continuing series 100 just. hated to put the hotelier because of the one with the roof actually you know i really need a new profile pic what about the one with the infinity pool. and . what was travel like before their world like in the 19th century travel wasn't fun it was dangerous and time consuming back then to richard francis burton was the ultimate traveler or as...
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my colleague david leavitt's is here with me now david looks pretty cool but also a little creepy as well i mean i can make anyone say anything it likes really mona lisa obama yeah it's a little bit dangerous actually this is a technique called deep fake that has been used actually to create fake news and it is scary in the era of fake news when you can have a politician give a fake press conference and post it online it's also been used to create fake porn using real people who are not porn actors so. great for creative work if you want to make mona lisa talk in your movie but this is really a technology that we have to be very careful indeed now let's talk about electronics that sensor recently reopened it is much more than a family museum isn't it is there are actually. researchers there who are at the cutting edge of ai and the arts i'm going to show you one example it's a guy whose work is pretty cool maybe a little creepy ali nick cron who's a scientist and a musician now he's teaching ai to replicate human responses to music that means someday you might be at a concert with an
my colleague david leavitt's is here with me now david looks pretty cool but also a little creepy as well i mean i can make anyone say anything it likes really mona lisa obama yeah it's a little bit dangerous actually this is a technique called deep fake that has been used actually to create fake news and it is scary in the era of fake news when you can have a politician give a fake press conference and post it online it's also been used to create fake porn using real people who are not porn...
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intimate insights into the life of a german border family in the 19th century our resident book david leavitt's has more for you. don't we all just want a little piece of immortality preferably a really flattering portrait or maybe someone could write a book about us full of nice things only nice things. and. not right just nice things when he portrayed his hometown of new back germany and the hefty novel books one bookstore in the town even lent to readers a key to tell them who the characters were based on you can imagine not everyone was pleased the book came out in 1001 it tells the story of a prominent merchant dynasty billboard and book claiming spanning 4 decades from the family's rise to its collapse gooden bokes woes aren't just financial. the men in the family are physically and emotionally unfit for this world the great grandson a sickly teenager named hunter gives up on all his dreams i can't want anything i don't even want to be famous i'm afraid of it just as if it were wrong thing to do nothing can come of me that is perfectly sure one day after confirmation class i heard pastor
intimate insights into the life of a german border family in the 19th century our resident book david leavitt's has more for you. don't we all just want a little piece of immortality preferably a really flattering portrait or maybe someone could write a book about us full of nice things only nice things. and. not right just nice things when he portrayed his hometown of new back germany and the hefty novel books one bookstore in the town even lent to readers a key to tell them who the characters...
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looks amazing i'm joined by my colleague david leavitt stave it that. actually go to him arrested in what it does seem that that is what led up to his famous 2011 arrest where he disappeared for 81 days basically the chinese government wanted this earthquake tragedy to go away but i kept it in the public eye so to speak and he was taken into secret police custody that's the subject of this work which is also on display it's called sacred now he of course wasn't supposed to talk about his arrest at all but that is what brought him to the world's attention now he's also he's called himself a refugee and this long before he came to live in germany in 2015 what he always had a difficult relationship with beijing actually that goes back to his childhood his father was a renowned poet who was banished by chairman mao during the cultural revolution to the edge of the gobi desert and the family lived there in extreme poverty for a while they even lived in a hole in the ground for a time here is showing a picture of that hole on his cell phone so all that as a b
looks amazing i'm joined by my colleague david leavitt stave it that. actually go to him arrested in what it does seem that that is what led up to his famous 2011 arrest where he disappeared for 81 days basically the chinese government wanted this earthquake tragedy to go away but i kept it in the public eye so to speak and he was taken into secret police custody that's the subject of this work which is also on display it's called sacred now he of course wasn't supposed to talk about his arrest...
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and my colleague david leavitt's is here with more on this david those are some unbelievably heavy price tags there is this what the art basel is now concentrating on really just the kremlin oh yeah this is i mean you know the art the art world these people that go around the globe air kissing their way around the globe from art fair to art fair art basel is where they come to target the chinese billionaires the oil sheiks the american tycoons and they bring their most valuable works with them and they choreograph this sort of feeding frenzy where the super rich buyers are bracing to get the very best goods ok so let's talk about that because the art market's obviously getting very very expensive is an understatement it's incredibly exclusive very top heavy at the moment doesn't that mean huge pressure for new talent for instance it does well what's happening is actually the parts of the art market that foster new upcoming talent are being hollowed out because buyers now are only interested in the works that are worth millions they want to buy a picasso they don't want to buy the future
and my colleague david leavitt's is here with more on this david those are some unbelievably heavy price tags there is this what the art basel is now concentrating on really just the kremlin oh yeah this is i mean you know the art the art world these people that go around the globe air kissing their way around the globe from art fair to art fair art basel is where they come to target the chinese billionaires the oil sheiks the american tycoons and they bring their most valuable works with them...
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almost as if they were the david leavitt's. i 6 told the footage i mean it does look as though it was filmed yesterday i practically had to lift my job back off the floor rob it looks so new and you know it looks so different to the images that we know from the lunar mission the ones that have burnt their way onto our brain i mean deezer the images that inspired people 50 years ago when you see them now they feel like they could have been a 1000000 years ago but this rediscovered footage now and the way that they've restored it just changes everything you're looking at neil armstrong like you could be looking at your neighbor almost and it just makes us realize that this is actually what the world looks like on the lunar mission looks like for the people who were there back in 1969 so where did they find this incredible footage so the director todd douglas miller was in touch with the u.s. national archive about this and one day he got an e-mail from them that they'd uncovered a whole trove of leftover movie footage from projec
almost as if they were the david leavitt's. i 6 told the footage i mean it does look as though it was filmed yesterday i practically had to lift my job back off the floor rob it looks so new and you know it looks so different to the images that we know from the lunar mission the ones that have burnt their way onto our brain i mean deezer the images that inspired people 50 years ago when you see them now they feel like they could have been a 1000000 years ago but this rediscovered footage now...
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and i'm joined now by the author of my colleague david leavitt. 10 is all since his death and his critics and accuses are as vocal as yet he still has a ton of fun well he does robin go to any party where they put on believe gene or thriller and there will be people on the dance floor no matter what they think about him as a person and that's because his talent is undeniable and really no one can take that from him but really you just have to take a quick look on twitter to see that there is a raging battle between his accusers and his supporters and it's pretty ugly you've got the one camp saying he was a child abuser who is music basically should be banned that we should never ever listen to again and then on the other hand you've got his diehard fans who will defend him to the very end and in some cases even threaten the people that they see as defaming him for instance there's an author of a book about the case against him diane dimond she says she's received multiple death threats from some of his more extreme fans so 10 years on this is not all about moonwalking this is really a ver
and i'm joined now by the author of my colleague david leavitt. 10 is all since his death and his critics and accuses are as vocal as yet he still has a ton of fun well he does robin go to any party where they put on believe gene or thriller and there will be people on the dance floor no matter what they think about him as a person and that's because his talent is undeniable and really no one can take that from him but really you just have to take a quick look on twitter to see that there is a...
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that's on the ladder and he's your music man estelle was i think in the prophet mohammad like a defeat leavitt is often with us having come in if you don't have the prophet mohammed slowly was a man and you had 7 for girls and no one was cut the wife of the prophet was not cut for me this is one of the strongest argument to let women believe that if you look at this and mean that you have done too you cannot pray believe in the christian contrie that most people will read the bible and there is this history about eve and people used to say that out of the bad things that we have in the rooms it's about women this is the. version i have paul. and they use sell lots of these off the f.o. that some of this scene of if. this is near 0 it's our car i have ever have thought about they leave uni on. their woman with the goods it's about freedom her name it's the it's about a woman that's so free so free we cannot imagine this woman. with a place that the good good good there is brutes. lots of had chills so fair logs for to day we had this freedom that we have. i want them to be the days log that hom
that's on the ladder and he's your music man estelle was i think in the prophet mohammad like a defeat leavitt is often with us having come in if you don't have the prophet mohammed slowly was a man and you had 7 for girls and no one was cut the wife of the prophet was not cut for me this is one of the strongest argument to let women believe that if you look at this and mean that you have done too you cannot pray believe in the christian contrie that most people will read the bible and there is...