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mr. bob schiller talks to republicans. [laughter] bob: i have a free market side.hing is, we need to develop insurance, free market insurance vehicles to protect against inequality. of course, we already have that, to some extent. life insurance, fire insurance, these are all engines protecting us. if your house burned down, you used to be poor. not true anymore. we have to expand the scope of our insurance industry and we should start insuring livelihoods. hans: coming up, more interviews from "bloomberg best." ♪ hans: welcome back to bloomberg best. i'm hans nichols. we are here in this protective valley and the theme has been technology on the fourth industrial revolution. is this the right environment to discuss disruptive change. clearly it was a lively summit. here are the best conversations from the week. >> what messages are you getting from the markets? >> i'm not worried about what message i get from the market. our businesses are doing great. we expect them to do better still. you've got oil collapsed. not because of the global recession, but because the

schiller is fairly well regarded. stepped down not long ago. has been back since the philidor controversy. mr. pearson's health remains a history beyond the diagnosis of severe pneumonia. my understanding is that the board is not getting much information from his family. they want to keep it as private as possible in terms of where his health stands. you know, on these kinds of things shareholders want as much transparency as possible and for various reasons families may not want to give as much information as would be hoped for. >> i find it quizzical. pneumonia. we have drugs for pneumonia. you don't know how severe. this is kind of an appointment of a man with some esteem. i listen to the sales you tell me about by ackman. this one doesn't add up to me. there's too many question marks here. what's really going on with shareholder base? what's going on? >> we always try go back and draw parallels. it goes back to jobs. jobs at apple and the degree to which the board at the time of his pancreatic cancer was disclosed or not disclosed. >> how important is pearson? >> some would say he's the ar