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The David McWilliams Podcast

Living in interesting times and how best to think of it

The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams

News & Politics

4.6643 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Four massive economic changes are going on right now under our noses, yet we are unaware of their magnitude because we increasingly value short-term thinking at the cost of long-term thinking. Today we explore those changes, make a case for thinking long-term and tease out how we can escape “the tyranny of now” with the help of Roman Krznaric, Author of: “The Good Ancestor”.

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0:29.1

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0:33.7

What in the world is happening on Wall Street?

0:36.0

Economic indicators.

0:37.6

Who knows where this is going to end up?

0:39.6

To understand the economy, you have to understand human nature.

0:45.8

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0:51.7

How are you doing there?

0:53.3

It is the end of July. Hope all as well. It's the podcast. You know the drill. We're trying to make economics that little bit more comprehensible, more sensible, more germane to our lives. We're trying to make sense of the world. Hope your week has been good. I've had an interesting one. What about you had?

1:10.7

I've been very good. I've a good old week. What about you had? I've been very good.

1:11.9

I've a good old week. Good old domestic week, actually. The domestic week. We domesticated.

1:16.6

Lots of gardening and lots of laundry. That's what I do these days. And has the manshead.

1:22.1

It's like a little refuge for you. It is. Yeah, yeah. And it's becoming more so it has proven its worth during COVID.

1:27.7

Absolutely. I'm not only saying that. My wife is saying that too.

1:32.3

My kids are saying that everywhere around. But you know where I was, I was in Le Hinch this week.

1:37.8

A Le Hinch. I was down visiting our mate, Peter Bannam, who bought an old pub called Tom Frawleys, just as you come into the town,

1:46.5

right?

1:46.6

Oh, yeah.

1:47.1

Now, the interesting thing about Tom Frolley's, for me, is that I have a photo of me and Shan

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