Justin Wolfers

There were some entrepreneurs who couldn't afford to go to business school.

There were immigrants with great ideas who ended up staying in their home countries instead.

And so whatever the next generation's Google or open AI is,

it may not end up being invented or it may not happen on our soil and we will never see that absence but our kids will feel it our kids will feel it instead of lost opportunities they'll be

businesses they never started, there'll be job opportunities, there'll be new technologies, there'll be ways of creating a greener, safer, more prosperous future that simply aren't possible, but we're not going to see it straight away.

And that I think is our current media is not well set up to talk about those issues because there's no number comes out, there's no news cycle, there's no Wall Street Journal headline, but it turns out economic research tells us that's the stuff that matters.

I will share with our audience.

Ben and I had never met before 15 minutes ago, but Ben, I have a feeling we're going to be mates.

Would you believe me if I told you I was coming to you live from Greenland?

It's as cold as Greenland, mate.

And we have been taken over by federal authority as well.

Look,

The thing that's more remarkable than what's happening in the markets is what's happening in the world.

Right.

The president woke up and decided the United States needed Greenland, which had never been part of the US, well, not never, in recent years hadn't been part of the US security planning at all.

And he's saying he wants to buy it, take it, something it, rename it.

No one's quite sure what.

And he's putting tariffs.

on countries who've sent vast forces of up to dozens of troops to defend Greenland from American hostile aggression.

That is astonishing on its face.