Alaska

“I think sovereign wealth funds generally have a bad track record. There's some exceptions that have like managed to use their wealth well, like Norway or Alaska, but there's just like these political economy problems that come up when there's this tight connec…”

“I'm also, I'm always super bullish on Alaska. I got canceled on Alaska Twitter, because I was too bullish on Alaska. They were like, don't come up here, you tech idiot. Well, it was, my point was that you need to be bullish on Alaska, because if climate change…”

“The United States built a lot of ships during the war. Most of them were delivered after the war was over with. The government found hundreds of, had hundreds of ships on its hands they didn't know what to do with. So they passed the Merchant Marine Act. Prima…”

“It is written into Alaskan state law, it is a duty of the governor to lobby for the Jones Act's repeal, and yet all three members of the Alaska delegation are pro-Jones Act.”

“And the GAO, they did a study back in the eighties about the cost to Alaska with the Jones Act. They concluded that it cost Alaskans, it was something like the equivalent of two percent of the state's income was the cost of the Jones Act.”

“We're launching our first satellite in a couple months for the U.S. State of Alaska and then shortly after that we'll be launching another satellite for Peru”

“We have much more limited monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon cycling in the Arctic than we do in other areas in lower latitudes in the continuous U.S., and even the work that's done in the Arctic. There are many areas that are gaps, and so much …”

“The first lease sale Which I think was in 1969 or 19 70 in Alaska, was nine hundred million dollars. So nine hundred million dollars in those 19 70 dollars went to the state treasury. But the state was tiny and the economy was stalled. The whole budget, the Al…”

“So like in Alaska, there has been a universal dividend since 1982.”

“If you are in 10 states, like Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, and a bunch of other ones it is illegal for your agent to rebate you part of their commission.”