U.S. States
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Friedberg: Social Security and state defaults will force bailouts by 2032
“Then the next big thing is going to happen around 2030 to 20 32. And that's really where social security doesn't have any money to pay anymore. And I think during that era is also when a lot of the states are going to become bankrupt. We're not going to be abl…”
Friedberg: Government Pension Plans Will Ultimately Bankrupt US States
“These pension plans are poison. The fundamental problem with these pension plans is that they will ultimately end up bankrupting the states, or they will become Ponzi schemes where people get screwed because they're expecting retirement benefits and they don't…”
Grinberg: US states permitting data centers will prosper economically
“There won't be as many jobs that get created there. Whereas the states that do allow for data centers to be good, to be created, you know, people will prosper. They're gonna have great jobs. They'll, you know, see the downstream benefits of it.”
a16z is tracking around 1,200 state-level AI bills across the US
“Yeah, and sitting here today, like, we're tracking on the order of 1200 bills across the 50 states.”
DeWahl: State-level nuclear energy bans are falling across the US
“There's actually many states in the US that have bans as well, but they've just been falling left and right.”
O'Neill: US states develop the most politically resilient clean energy policies
“States are where some of our most forward-looking and politically resilient clean energy policies have been developed.”
Other US states will not replicate Illinois' AI mental health therapy ban
“I don't expect we'll see the other states go in the direction of Illinois, partially because it's just so hard to regulate.”
US states securitized Big Tobacco settlement payments into tradable bonds
“Like states have actually, like every state got a payment because they have the local hospital systems. And so these states were able to take these revenue streams and then create derivatives against them and like sell those as bonds and then like pull all tha…”
Pearl: US states and Ivy Leagues are developing NFT diploma certificates
“I know that several companies are working with a few U.S. States, and obviously outside of the U.S. And with some you know, public organizations as well, like colleges and Ivy League universities on NFTing their diplomas, their certificates, and so on.”
Momand: Retrospective regulatory reviews exist in 10 to 15 states
“And this is introduced in probably like 10 to 15 states right now with various levels of success.”
Boehly predicted in 2021 that all states will allow sports gambling
“Is obviously not all the states allow gambling yet, but I think in 10 years time, that will be the case.”