addictions the more we learn about how much of an actual sickness it is. and i think that people no matter how strong willed they are or whatever choices they might make normally are when they re afflicted by that sickness it s very, very hard to differentiate what s controlling what, whether it s the person and their will or the sickness. i think for me it must have been a combination of my upbringing. my parents were very grounded people. and i had a very grounded sort of life up until that point. my parents are very clean and sober people. and i also don t think that i have what it takes to absorb myself in that sort of thing. i was having din where a big singing star over the weekend. we were talking about the particular pressure of performing. even if it s not in front of a live audience but as a movie performance or whatever, whether there s huge money riding on it, huge acclaim or huge failure at the end of the process, a lot of particular pressure to performers. do you unders
for the sake of entertaining. and he knows something about that and anyone that s really blown up in that way has at least tasted that. the problematic desire from the public and definitely from the press and those folks who profit off of it, to not only profit off the rise but to profit off the mess and potential fall. there is a human being here who is setting examples and is a free person and can make his own mistakes. but there is a lot of money riding on these dramatic and potentially misdemeanor issues the folks that make money from his rise, record sales, those sort of people, concerts, they are not going to make money from the fall, tabloid, media. they may make money from the book. there is a lot of that person dies like a curt compakurt coba i m saying in larger complex, outside of that concentric circle, there is a lot of money to be made offing the rise and fall. there is nothing better than ari melber and krystal ball.
actually has money riding on their predictions. muhammad and greg. nice to see you guys at the beginning of the year. i have a lot of questions about where we go from here. muhammad, a lot of optimism about the economy for the year. what do you see is the biggest risk? so first, christine, happy new year. this is a year in which growth is higher, we create more jobs. wages will go up. the less good news are the risks. we have three in particular. one is that underlying all this is a fed that continues to use unconventional measures to support the economy and it s changing the way it will be doing business. so the uncertainty associated with the effectiveness of the fed as it pivots from one instrument to another. the second element is businesses. they have the wallet to spend,
of progressives but you argue baked into this law and these restriction as and these rules is a complete coordination and integration of health care insurance market. that means there s a lot of money riding on this thing working. there is a lot of money riding on it. i think the way to look at this and way i like at it, we had inertia health care for a long time. we had something moving along at the certain pace and distance and direction and could not be stopped. obama care was a big, big jolt to that. now we re beginning to have the transition where this massive liner in the middle of the ocean is turning around and beginning to move in another direction. there s going to be a great deal of inertia supporting that as well. the health care industry is part of that. insurers and hospitals and others who depend on the federal funds. there s no denying it has been a long road for the president, whether it s been the snowden leak, benghazi leaks or
us in what you have experiences and what we re seeing in louisiana. yes, sir. even going back to my high school days, 70s, when i ran track, i had guys who were not upstanding citizens who would say, how many yards are you going to win by? and i m like, why? and they would say, well, because we got a lot of money riding on this, like a point spread. and better not win by large margin because we ll have to get away from the stadium. even when i was at the university of miami, you definitely wanted to cover the point spread, you want to have fun, and we did that on the field, but you never know what type of outside influences are going to be coming after you after the game. for sure, randall-ly to hill. nice to meet you. thank you, sir. don t you hate it when you re on a plane, listening to music or playing candy crush or something, and they tell you,