I think the presenter in NY cut him off not because of the TV commercial break but because he wants to get up, leave the studio, and start buying canned food for the next 10 weeks.
Roubini: the markets cannot price uncertainty, they can price risk, and currently things are not Normally distributed.
Remember the Gaussian bell-shaped distribution from maths classes? It’s widely used to predict the future despite the advances in machine learning. (Think non-linear function approximation.)