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About drinking your own urine - you talk in the book about people who hallucinate while running or become disoriented and exhausted. You say running is really easy, but obviously ultra-running is an extreme sport. It's very hard, and people go through a lot. Why do you think people push themselves that hard? A really smart scientist, Dr. Dennis Bramble at the University of Utah, said to me, "Recreation has its reasons." It's an instinct we have inside of us. We push ourselves that far because we're hard-wired to want to remind ourselves that...
...book's pacing is uneven - slow at first, rushed at the end - but full of sharply observed detail. In their craving for status and profit, the Lohias prefigure that élite caste of financial risk takers who still - as we are all now painfully aware - determine the course of the world economy. Chowdhury's work is fiction, but it is as true an account...
...generation. Fool's Gold tells how a team at J.P. Morgan popularized credit derivatives, then pulled back worriedly just before the rest of the banking world was nearly destroyed by them. The physics of finance is complex, but Tett explains the world of derivatives as well as any book for lay readers ever...
Longevity is impossible to explain. I never wanted to do anything else but be a broadcaster. I'm talking about age 5. I wanted to be on the radio, then I wanted to be on television. I never thought I'd be seen worldwide. We almost called the book What Am I Doing Here...
There is still demand for this kind of market-trashing talk. Schiff's 2007 book, Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse, is selling well on Amazon.com His many YouTube videos keep attracting new viewers. He says he's getting more speaking requests than he can possibly satisfy, many from overseas. Euro Pacific still garners new clients. But with a few exceptions--Larry Kudlow brings Schiff onto his CNBC show occasionally, Liz Claman does the same on Fox Business Network, and I'm writing a column about him--he's no longer invited to mainstream discussions...