The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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every show 44 of 44
Wenger: Musk has the personal wealth to absorb Twitter's debt
“Yeah, no, I mean, look, I mean, that's tough noogies for you, but you're still one of the world's richest people, and you still could basically give any debt provider an out, and you could still basically just take a bunch of your wealth and sort of say, look,…”
Basic income trials show recipients invest in education and family care
“And there is literally no evidence to support that. All the evidence from all the basic income trials that have ever been run are that people like, wow, I can take better care of myself. I can invest in education. I can take better care of my family. Of my fri…”
Wenger: Downrounds are incredibly hard; he has done three in 30 years
“I've been doing this for nearly 30 years, and I've done, like, three downrounds in that entire time period. Downrounds are incredibly hard to pull off.”
US welfare recipients often face effective marginal tax rates over 100 percent
“You have zero work incentive because you start working, you lose all your welfare, but you only make a little bit of money. So the taxes that you effectively face, people who are on welfare today often face tax rates that are above a hundred percent. So like i…”
Wenger: Earth traps 4 to 7 Hiroshima bombs of heat per second
“The reality is it's four to seven per second, right? So of every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every day, it's like four to seven Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs worth of heat.”
Joshua Schachter built Delicious as a Morgan Stanley side project
“Josh had written Delicious. It was a fully up and running service while he was still an employee at Morgan Stanley. It was a side project.”