It's funny because a video just came up underneath that of one of my old guests on Capitol account. It's actually an episode from his called Doug Casey on Christ's Investing Political Risk and Benign Anarchy. But I did an episode with Bill Janeway on the innovation economy and I did one other one with Safi Bacall. And also another one actually with Jimmy Sony where we talked about Claude Shannon and inevitably, it was actually the history of information theory and a sort of bio of Claude Shannon. And that of course gets into conversations about Bell Labs and then of our Bush and the war effort. And a lot of good came out of US government investments. And I really have bought into Bill Janeway's thesis around government playing an essential role in the early stages of the innovation cycle where risk is fraught and where the private sector is understandably unwilling to invest because a properly functioning private sector wants to invest efficiently. And so they're really great at (64/97)
You are viewing a single comment's thread from: