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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Chris Power claims 90% of US solar panels use Chinese slave labor
“90% of the solar panels in the country are being made in China by basically slave labor where millions of minority and immigrant women are being chemically castrated every year and forced into servitude.”
Power: The US no longer manufactures CNC machines domestically
“And we no longer make CNC machines in the US.”
Ukraine depleted three years of US missile inventory in three weeks
“We shipped the Ukrainians what we thought was three years of inventory of stinger and javelin missiles, which are shoulder mounted, really cheap missiles that can take out a tank or something. So for providing that to a human force in Taiwan or the Ukraine, it…”
Power: US no longer manufactures capital equipment for domestic factories
“We don't even make the CapEx that goes into the factories in the US anymore. Like it's all German, South Korean, Japanese or whatever, and they're controlled products.”
Power: The United States produced only five ships in 2024
“We produced a grand total of five ships last year.”
Power: China built 1,700 vessels last year versus five by the US
“I mean, we're talking about like a quantum shipbuilding of like, I think it's 1700 last year of commercial and military vessels versus five.”
US had to reverse-engineer B-2 bomber parts due to lost documentation
“About a year ago, the government had to issue an RFQ for some of the parts on the B to not just to replace the parts, but because no one, you know, the guy that designed it or engineered it retired and they didn't have it documented anywhere. Like there's lite…”
Over 50% of the US F-16 fleet is grounded missing parts
“If you look at the DOD stats, more than 50% of the F-sixteans are grounded, and it's mostly because they can't maintain them, and it's mostly because they can't get parts, and what ends up happening is they end up cannibalizing other planes for parts, and that…”
Power: Traditional manufacturing factories lack real-time operational observability dashboards
“No factory on the planet has observability. So you can't simply, and maybe like Foxconn does but you can't simply throw up in a dashboard and go, what is my uptime? Where are the costs for this job? How much labor did we spend on it? It's all kind of swags and…”
Power: Most highly skilled U.S. manufacturing workers are 62 years old
“And then the real underlying problem is my thesis is that basically everyone that's highly skilled in any manufacturing domain is basically 62.”
Power: Fed will cut rates close to 2021 ZERP levels within 12 months
“I think that we have so much headroom in the federal reserve rate, that I think we're going to see dramatic cuts close to twenty-twenty-one ZERP levels over the next 12 months.”
Most skilled US defense manufacturing workers are 62 years old
“The thesis of the company is basically, if people don't know this, most of the skilled labor in the defense industrial base is 62 years old. That makes the components or Widgets that end up getting assembled into drones, fighter jets, missiles any hardware tha…”
The average US defense manufacturing owner-operator is 62 years old
“Average age of a worker is like 55. Average age of an owner-operator who's a small business owner that is actually, you know, needed to function in the business is 62.”
Power: Electricity accounts for 95% of aluminum manufacturing costs
“Like, 95% of the cost of aluminum is just the kilowatt hour of the power price.”
Power: Energy comprises 90% of aluminum and steel manufacturing costs
“It's the cost of raw materials, aluminum, steel, 90% of the cost of that is actually energy.”
Power: The US no longer manufactures antibiotics domestically
“We don't really make antibiotics onshore in the US anymore.”
Hadrian will launch two 500,000-square-foot manufacturing facilities next year
“We built a 100,000 square foot in LA, and then we're going to launch two new facilities next year, which are about half a million square foot each, and then we'll keep expanding to every state”
Power: Stripe and Google capped annual team headcount growth at exactly 30%
“Patrick Carlson from Stripe and also Eric Schmidt at Google basically had a hard and fast rule that you could only scale teams 30% a year without damaging the culture of the org.”
Power: Hadrian will open its Arizona factory by Christmas
“So we're launching factory three in Arizona, which will be up and running in Christmas. We're in July, we signed the lease a couple of weeks ago, so it'll take us six months from start to finish to have it up and running, which I think is really fast.”