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My next guest professor cornell west recently said this. more and more working people are beaten down and they are world-weary. they are into self-medication. they are turning on each other. they are scapegoating the most vulnerable rather than confronting the most powerful. it is a profoundly human response to panic and catastrophe. i thought barack obama could have provided some way out but he lacks back bone. let's bring in the professor of african-american studies at princeton university, cornel west. great to have you on tonight. holy smokes. i heard about these comments and i read them. ...

What we've seen is that compulsive spending is not based on what you make. a lot of people feel that, well, if you're wealthy, you have a lot of money, then you can just go ahead and buy whatever you want to buy. but it is not really about that. compulsive spending is almost like a self-medication. it makes you feel better when you go out there and spend. >> just for a short am of time it makes you feel better. >> you get that high right away, then of course the crashing low comes when you have to look at your credit card bill later on or realize that you bought something that really is worthl...

Back now with clinical psychologist jeff gardere. thanks for being here. talking about spending, compulsive versus impulsive spending. what's the difference here? >> impulsive spending is when you're not thinking about what you're doing. you're just going with the high, just going with the feeling. it looks good, let me do this and you aren't thinking about the consequences. compulsive shopping is a lot more serious. this is an addiction, something that you have to do and more of that self-medication that i was talking about if you're depressed, if you're anxious, if you have all sorts of othe...

Was -- was by just basically shutting it out, locking it out. >> prince harry arrived at eaton, the prestigious boys boarding school the year after his mother's death. even though he moved into the same house as his older brother, william, harry reportedly struggled academically, and was miserable. >> diana always said that she never wanted harry to go to eaton because he would be compared to his brother's success. and she thought this would be the undoing of harry's confidence. >> prince harry says that he decided that he was going to be a bad boy so that the reason he didn't do well there wa...

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