I'm telling you, if you got friends that would go to the National Inquirer with your

closest secrets, you need new friends. You Jeff Bezos revelations on the way. Post them,

you want the pictures? No. You want the pictures? No. You send newties to his

his mistress. That's got nothing to do with me. Okay. All right, then.

And my friends is contemplating doing that. I'm going to come up behind you and hit you over your

head. Fair warning. Going to the National Inquirer. Something. Is Mr. Bremmer with us? Fabulous.

Thank you. Super. Please welcome back to the Armstrong and Getty Show frequent guest,

President and founder of Eurasia Group Ian Bremmer. Eurasia Group's annual forecast of the

political risks of this year. The top risk 2019 is out. It is as always interesting and

I agree with Mr. Bremmer, disagree with them. It's always informative. Ian, how are you, sir?

Hey, good to do with you guys after 2019. Thank you. You know, it's funny. As we return from

vacation, we all agreed that as insane as 2018 was, there's good chance 2019 is going to make

it look placid. Good chance. It's guaranteed. Now, am I just agitated by too much caffeine and

too much cable news or is the world actually looking pretty unstable? The fact that global

economic growth is still reasonably robust and unemployment, the US is low and people are actually

coming back to the market to look for jobs and they're getting retrained. A lot of them are over

50 years old. That's a really good thing. It's not like it's all doom and gloom, but the level

of uncertainty and certainly the fact that American political institutions this year will be tested

in ways that we have not experienced in our lifetimes. I think it has to make people's

spidey sense tingled just a little more than usual. So how interesting. So we're surfing quite

beautifully on the top of a nice wave, but there's something weird and unstable about the wave and

we're nervous. Sharks down there, man. Yeah. No boy. So that's number one global risk sharks.

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