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A more expensive thanksgiving, christine. consumer prices up 17% in september from a year ago and then you look at the prices that retailers are paying producers, the wholesale prices for 8 to 16 pound hens that's the most popular bird come thanksgiving. those prices have jumped to $1.80 per pound up from $1.40. it means you will pay more for your turkey. >> what's driving it? >> it's not just higher inflation. there was a bout of bird flu that killed more than 6 million birds so that means producers have fewer birds to supply to stores. they raised 212 million turkeys this year, that's one of...

What has caused this huge slide? we saw through the night the pound dropping to less than $1 and 4 cents. that is record—breaking, that exchange rate has never been that low. it's recovered slightly this morning, but it's still really worrying. as you say, it's happened because of words like confidence, credibility, in pound sterling. on friday we had the announcement from the chancellor kwasi kwarteng saying tax would be cut and paid for by borrowing which made investors look at the pound and say i'm a bit worried about this and is this where i want my money to be long—term? why does it m...

Like sevenfold in the past seven or eight years, which is big, the absolute amount of money going into start—ups is still maybe 1/35th or 1/40th of that of the united states, despite japan being one of the biggest economies in the world, despite having amazing human capital talent, despite having tremendous abundant capital and despite having some leading edge technologies. to change that, japan's elite universities are also setting up their own venture capital firms, in part thanks to government funding. kyoto university has produced 11 nobel prize winners but it wasn't known for producing ...

Entrepreneurs and the entire ecosystem has grown something like sevenfold in the past seven or eight years, which is big, the absolute amount of money going into start—ups is still maybe 1/35th or 1/40th of that of the united states, despite japan being one of the biggest economies in the world, despite having amazing human capital talent, despite having tremendous abundant capital and despite having some leading edge technologies. to change that, japan's elite universities are also setting up their own venture capital firms, in part thanks to government funding. kyoto university has produce...

Ecosystem was perceived as, if you don't work at a big company, you can't fit in a big company, then this is plan b. in other words, not mainstream. but we're now seeing young people coming out of, say, investment banks or consulting firms thinking, "life's short, i want to do something on my own." while we see a lot more entrepreneurs and the entire ecosystem has grown something like sevenfold in the past seven or eight years, which is big, the absolute amount of money going into start—ups is still maybe 1/35th or 1/40th of that of the united states, despite japan being one of the biggest e...