Stimulus Checks
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes
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Parr: Giving Direct Cash Outperforms Most Bureaucratic Charity Programs
“Turns out that just giving poor people money is probably better than, like, a huge percentage of charities where they're like, you know, in order to, like, Help young single moms who are poor. I'm going to help you get a job. I'm going to help you. Like you go…”
Calacanis: Stimulus checks created service worker shortages by disincentivizing labor
“We have a shortage of Uber drivers, we have a shortage of bartenders, waiters, nobody was a lot of people are just choosing not to go to work because they have their stimmies.”
Friedberg: Investing the three US stimulus checks in Dogecoin yields $300,000
“It turns out if you put your stimulus check out of each of the last three stimulus checks into Dogecoin, you would have 300,000 dollars.”
Santens: $2,000 monthly stimulus checks will prevent business failures during COVID-19
“So if you do have that money, if you do, if we make sure that everyone gets 2000 dollars a month for the rest of this crisis, Then first of all, you prevent a lot of those businesses from failing that would otherwise have failed. You grow and stimulate these b…”
Latka: Additional stimulus payments will pass before the 2020 election
“I don't think Trump can turn that off between now and the election. I don't think that turns off. I think you see additional stimulus is passed. They're not calling it a UBI. It's in response to the virus, but we cannot turn these things off.”