square or narcissism at the speed of narcissism squared because look at a deal like carl icahn buying into herbalife yeah yer whole life is a ponzi scheme herbalife was on its way to going out of business it's a multi-level marketing scheme otherwise known as the ponzi scheme what is funny guy was shorting the stock aggressively twenty million shares or more of one hundred million shares outstanding in herbal life but then carl icahn comes around and starts to buy the stock not because he likes herbalife not because he likes the company but because another hedge fund manager or short and he can torture that other hedge fund manager by buying stock or going along in creating what's called a short squeeze so now the herbalife stock is trading near all time highs is it because the underlying company makes sense economically no it's a ponzi scheme is because it's well managed no what's a ponzi scheme do you have one hedge fund manager battling another hedge fund money both bill aikman and carl icahn are borrowing money from the wholesale market a new zero percent rates to do battle agains

i think you could call high frequency narcissism as applied to the pyramid scheme which is herbalife yes exactly. so speaking of pyramid schemes let's move on to another narcissistic market going on at the moment the art of selling out to the faceless money men when prices are going crazy a crash must be on the horizon warns oscar humphreys so in new york this past week leonardo dicaprio presided over an auction and it broke records smashed records no this was no isolated event these inflated prices were mirrored by options at sotheby's and christie's that made nearly half a billion dollars the highest total and auction history but max get this highest totals in auction history this past year mirrored in the auctions the buyers are often the galleries that represent the artist or collectors that own other works by these artists the more they pay the more valuable the work they already own because. most of the posers game. christie's and the other ones off the base have been involved in scams in the past for their fine. chancing the purchase of art to jack the price up of art work to

. -- narcissism. the only person that likes arrogant or narcissistic person is themselves. if this happens to you, you'll be like the folks i work with in congress. [laughter] then you can line up with the 12% approval rating but congress today. always a member that you put your pants on one leg at a time like everybody else. you're not anyway more important that another person. let's take an assessment of where we are now. you have updated from time to time your plan. you're living your plan every day. based on the way you have done these things, you'll been asked to leave and you're doing it well. you are a success. now what? before we answer that, let's make sure we have a clear understanding of what the success means in my view. success should not explicitly be measured in monetary terms. it can be measured by children raised, students taught, people comforted, lives saved, broken hearts heal. -- healed. discoveries made, inventions created, and nation defended, local threats mitigated by first responders, and dozens of other actions. let's talk about serving. in my min

you can always find narcissism.ntion to. >> i hope there are a bunch of ladies behind me. there are so many different people -- a woman has opened the film. >> i think of myself as the mud of the letter. i am not purebred. there are actors that are my contemporaries that i think of as purebred. i am not. i'm street mutt. >> black artist can only tell the truth about humanity and people are messy. ,, i was watching one of my old movies on television and i could not remember the movie. , and i said, wait a minute, that is not me, that is michael. [laughter] >> ben and i had a joint bank account the only thing you could take money on four trips to audition or if we both decided we would convene a board meeting to take out $10 to play video games. [laughter] tavis: brought your hat? can i put this on? >> the horseshoe is in the front. >> one horrible rainy evening, .verybody is hustling he suddenly calls my name and a turnaround, and he says, thank you. >> have you ever jumped out of a window before? i'm not a stunt per

. >> the amazing thing about this is it is the narcissism of it.is routine and says finally another person who thinks like me like all men are like that. he said i am so enlightened, but i wish i didn't have these thoughts. everybody has these thoughts. that's what being is a man is. >> and why self-control is so important. >> it is. this guy who calls himself a feminist, these people rail against the patriarcky and basically western culture and male dominated culture and that's what keeps guys from doing bad things. >> i thought the article was incredible. does "red eye" know this? i think we should make a chair specifically on the side of the table so tom can sit there and show off his calves. >> the only reason you are sitting there is for coincidence. we roll dice to see who is sitting where. i will have you know that. >> and dice is one of the names of my house boys. he screams when we roll him. we find it is amusing for us and painful for him. it is not a coincidence. mike? >> i was going to say something enlightened. this is fascinating. the

>> you are proud of your narcissism? you like to brad in front of hundreds of thousands of people. bill you never touched a girl, but you saw a side boob on cinemax. way was happy to have cinemax. there must have been a cross in the cable. we have to look at the end game. what you are describing is a guy that is so into himself he has lots of facial products on. probably flexes in the mirror as he is having sex with two girls. the end of that movie is called "american psycho" so think about that. i don't want to be a nare is you cyst, but they will probably end up killing you. that's how it ends. call me. the homeless, lovable types are the best. and i have cable now. >> it is actually a long cable you sleep next to. >> next topic a jelly wrestling contest at cambridge university, wonder where that is, has been canceled plans saying it was sexist and massage nistic and inappropriate. students petitioned against the event which included babes rolling around in a pool of jelly. the organizers finally caved. jim, is this another reason why you don't live in england? it is the politica

i think you could call a high frequency narcissism as applied to the pyramid scheme which is herbalife yes exactly. so speaking of pyramid schemes let's move on to another narcissistic market going on in at the moment the art of selling out to the faceless money men when prices are going crazy a crash must be on the horizon warns oscar humphreys so in new york this past week leonardo dicaprio presided over an option and. broke records smashed records no this was no isolated event these inflated prices were mirrored by options outside to be used in christie's that made nearly half a billion dollars the highest total and auction history but max get this highest totals in auction history this past year mirrored in the auctions the buyers are often the galleries that represent the artist or collectors that own other works by these artists the more they pay the more valuable the work they already own because. most of the posers game. christie's and the other one self-abuse have been involved in scams in the past for their financing the purchase of art to jack the price up of art work to mak

continued across all russia throughout the weekend there is a month sixty eight years since the narcisse reigned in world war two the trademark ground of military parade in moscow was of course of the centerpiece of me the night thousands of troops and tons of hardware swept across with square with planes flying overhead as one of the most dates in russia in all of the surviving veterans and more than twenty six million soviet people who perished in the war the country bore the brunt of the bridge will not the war machine for several years before the red army pushed back to liberate all of eastern europe rolling all the way to the top of the race in berlin. this week or so is symbolic revolution on russia's political stage when a leading architect of the government's strategy stepped down after thirteen years vladislav surkov were handed in his records nation as a deputy prime minister would often be referred to in the media as the great cardinal of the kremlin where he had been in charge of a wide range of domestic. real britons a return to the presidency last year was a transfer throug

chicago or new york there's a cut from the same cloth they believe in the sanctity of their own narcissism as the guiding light of their actions and they're killing themselves and others and that's why we have a big problem so again you know the market making and liquidity are the excuses they use over and over we played that a few years ago where blankfein of goldman sachs was interviewed by charlie rose he said there are market makers they're just providing liquidity to the market all these fraudulent c.d.o. is that was just market liquidity they had no position blith master she was now under investigation for rigging energy markets she just said the same thing about silver a few years ago i can see the parking. lot and i can see if you prefer not to be. pissed off it's not. going to be able to get you to. a particular tree except. it would. be. if you. think. that i'm pretty. but i think that on what's the update there your thoughts well i think it's going to make any maiden meaningful difference to the to the european economy i mean we had this policy internationally now forward five y

chicago or new york there's a cut from the same cloth they believe in the sanctity of their own narcissism as the guiding light of their actions and they're killing themselves and others and that's why we have a big problem so again you know hit the market making in the quiddity or the excuses they use over and over we played that a few years ago where lloyd blankfein of goldman sachs was interviewed by charlie rose he said that their market makers are just providing liquidity to the market all these fraudulent c.d.o. is that was just market liquidity they they had no position blith master she was now under investigation for rigging energy markets she just said the same thing about silver a few years ago she said we're just providing. aditi where market makers we don't take any position we don't profit from any position in the article they say proponents say eliminating the ability of parties and a trade to get information slightly in advance could lead to less liquid markets because some firms would be inclined to trade less due to the greater risk right well if they were adding liquidity

. >> was is it narcissism that made him send in the pictures in the first place? his poll numbers are okay and he thinks the climate is just right for him to run for mayor. every person that has ever sent an unis solicited d-pick feels vindicated. >> i hatey to agree with paul, but our generation is defined by one word and it is whatever. you know what, it is also the fact that this scandal gave him name recognition. >> some people don't care, under 30 oh he sent a picture of his privates ? y did that last week. and 60 and over are sending chain letters. >> kim kardashian, is the statute out of limitations on these things too short? is it getting shorter? when did this happen? >> a year and a half. >> i thought there was a great period or period of time they don't come back. >> scandal moratorium. >> can i ask the three women on the panel, you, you and you, why does the woman stand behind the man when this happens? >> that is a great question. >> can i answer that? the reason women stand behind paul is because his face is so hideous. >> that's not true. >> for dif

they're thinking -- that generation has then transmitted a narcissism to their children.ren's children. we're all in in me state. whereas, millenials are just trying to think about how are they going to get a job. how are they going to pay off their student loans. not thinking about will i have retirement, will there be social security. we're all stuck in in me state thinking about the near future not focused on the long-term. >> that's interesting. there's a way in which if we look at public policy, it tracks the baby boomers. because they have been so big and dominating, whatever they want is what our economy generates and creates now for decades. maybe they're the me, me, me generation and this is the now, now, now generation not out of narcissism but out of necessity. >> out of necessity for survival, what's going to be there. of course, we've learned it from our parents and our parents parents. we have to look at the fact that the baby boomers are incredibly stressed. >> yes. >> incredibly stressed. not being able to work full-time, hitting career ceilings. not knowi

can you do that with a recent history, narcissism, whatever you call this situation. >> look, i would love to poll this race, right, the polling is going to be fascinating, who are the weiner supporters, who are the opponents, here we have a -- here we have a sex scandal where there was not actual sex. >> what was it? >> there was sexting, which is kind of a new age transportation. >> tens of thousands. >> and it will be fascinating to see how people react. >> see, the question is not orientation, not people having a sex drive, which god invented, none of us did, it's this weird desire to be known in this strange way by tens or thousands of people or strangers, and i don't see evidence that it's gone, except it's transforming under this desire to campaign for public office, which you got to wonder about, are they connected, these two pastimes? >> you can be an idiot on the internet and still be a good mayor. >> what do you mean by idiot? >> i think everyone can agree -- >> he wanted to do something else and did this by accident? >> no, the way he behaved with the pictures. >> mistakes

the narcissism involved in what preoccupies you, you are now 3 to get high on marijuana, just think about what animates a lot of people. it is people frankly. social darwinism, this is what the left uses to attack the belief -- i don't even know what believe they are attacking. what about social darwinism, that the talented and hard-working get ahead? why is that darwinism? why isn't that merit? i have in there from a harvard economist, princeton economist, won and nobel prize, doesn't mean anything to me but it does to a lot of mothers, shows how much more television poor people watch than richer people, because richer people don't have to time to watch tv, they worked so hard to get ahead. this doesn't mean poor people don't work hard but on average in america by and large there is a correlation between hours worked and income. by and large. of course there are exceptions that both ends. >> host: booktv on the campus of the university of southern california at the l.a. times festival of books and mathew in portland, ore. you are on with dennis prager. >> good morning, how are you doing,

studies so i have -- is a professor who sort of measures psychological levels of entitlement and narcissism. he found last year that generation y. scored 25% higher than respondents to age 45 and 50, 50% higher than those over 61. when it came to those two things. so they were all essential and highly what he called the highly entitled range. so they were four times more likely to expect things from government and the parents and their neighbors than crabby old coot on attention. that is an amazing thing. because in this country a used to be old people were banging on the table wanting step ignited young people and the older generation is far more responsible in their voting patterns than younger people who are constantly demanding things. he was a think a liberal just reading between the lines but he said he couldn't believe that jim dwyer said such unrealistic expectations which led to chronic disappointment. i have worked with interns. when i was an intern i worked in new york, make me getting coffee. i don't think i did anything with journalism for two years. now i'm up against those th

along with that comes a pretty strong streak of narcissism.t's all about him. >> you know, we heard in the writings that he actually wrote that these girls made the mistake of getting into the car with him. what does that tell you? >> that's a pretty common trait among psycho paths. laws are written for suckers, they're for other people, not for psycho paths, and they tend to project and rationalize. they project onto the victims it's their fault. it's never the psychopaths fault for committing the crime. >> this is supposedly the case of a monster who was hiding in plain sight. he allegedly had regular interactions with neighbors, even his brothers claim to have absolutely no knowledge of what was actually going on inside of this house. you know, we've spoken to one of his daughters who is incredibly close to him who also was inside of that house and had no idea. so how is it possible that he led this double life for so long? >>> a lot of these sexually motivated offenders are very good at compartmentalling their lives. people such as dennis

it is this idea that really, it is almost a form of narcissism from straight males that they think that gay guy sees them, they'll be so overwhelmed by attractiveness but they'll have no choice but to mount them. it is ridiculous. >> stephanie: the guys that really have the least chance of any gay guy wanting to hit on them. this is my favorite part. you talk about that. you say players those of you worried about a gay teammate hitting on you in the steam room, i have four simple words for you. grow the [ bleep ] up. this is our job. we are adults. act like one. straight people intrinsically understand that they are not attracted to every single person of the opposite sex. why would it be any different for gay people? >> exactly. again, it is this lack of empathy, of being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes and realize that this is how someone is living their life. they're not going to turn into a savage because of who they are. they are a human being like you are a human being. >> stephanie: right. you raise always such interesting perspectives, too in this piece. how much be

in ariel castro's case, aside from the despicable sadism, the narcissism, the fact that he could take years and keep them chained and abused and with total disregard and to have miscarriages and babies born and all the rest of it, kidnapping and rape are all life sentences. what we need now is to get this prosecutor to focus on those miscarriages because i believe that they are homicides and i believe that that is a capital crime and an appropriate use of the death penalty. this is a monster who should not walk the face of the earth. >> gre though, that -- i want to wrap up on the prosecutor. because it appears the prosecutor is leaning in that direction, because of the miscarriages, and god only knows what they might find when they dig up in the backyard. maybe there are actual babies that were buried there. >> or even a fourth victim. we have heard there was another woman missing from the same area. the lesson i take away, brian, i look, where were the neighbors? how could they for ten years see a boarded up house -- >> steve: there were a lot of board up houses in the neighborhood.