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TBPN Opinion
Weisenthal: Trading Solana meme coins is not comparable to building railroads
“The premise that like investing in crypto that like investing in meme coins, which is the primary use of Solana is somewhere along the land space travel in the same conversations. Like we built the railroads, we landed on the moon and we trade coins on Solana.…”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 2:53 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Assertion Not checkable as stated
Joe Weisenthal: The anticipated Trump M&A green light has not materialized
“This expectation that the new administration was going to be sort of this, like, at least on the regulatory side, or at least on the deal side, the sort of like libertarian green light, everything is not really panned out.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 6:55 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Assertion Supported
Weisenthal: FTC Chair Ferguson is keeping Lina Khan's merger guidelines
“And it's interesting because he's keeping Lena Khan's merger guidelines in place.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 7:16 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Opinion
Weisenthal: Investors mistaken to expect a Bush-era lenient FTC under Ferguson
“He's like, we're not, we take this idea of corporate power as a harm very seriously. And if you think this is going to be sort of like a Bush era FTC, you're mistaken, which I think is really interesting and probably relevant for investors, both in private and…”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 9:17 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Opinion
Weisenthal: The idea that LLMs approach human intelligence is a joke
“I'm simultaneously every day blown away, and I'm also every day like, Oh, this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. And the idea that this is approaching human intelligence is a joke.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 11:21 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2030
Weisenthal: There will be another SPAC boom in his lifetime
“SPACs have come and gone multiple times in their history, so I would never bet against the return of the SPAC. It might take a while. I think, you know, it's like, maybe even like every 15 or 20 years or whatever, but I am confident that in my lifetime, there …”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 22:17 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Opinion
Joe Weisenthal: Bluesky users are sickos for bad economic news under Trump
“You know, when like the market's down, I post on blue sky because the crowd is like sickos for bad news under the Trump administration.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 23:11 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Insight
Weisenthal: The US Treasury Market Is Literally a Prediction Market
“The U.S. Treasury market is literally a prediction market because U.S. Treasuries at any point in the curve are the ensemble prediction of what the Fed is expected to do over the course of any given time. So a five-year Treasury is what the next five years of …”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 24:37 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Assertion Supported
Weisenthal: Crypto market peaked on the day of Trump's inaugural ball
“You know, I think, like, the crypto high was literally the day he had that ball.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 15:20 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Insight
Weisenthal: The jobs report is the gold standard for business climate
“The super bowl is always going to be jobs day because it's a really good high quality survey. If you want to understand, like our business is in a mood to invest and are they feeling good? I mean, there's no better measure than are they actually willing to lik…”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 16:14 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Assertion Supported
Weisenthal: Capital One-Discover deal spread made full post-election round trip
“If you look at that spread on that deal, that's been a complete round trip since the election.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 14:56 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
TBPN Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisenthal: A TV reporter will ask an insane AI-hallucinated question
“Somewhere someday, some reporter you're going to see on TV asks is going to ask an insane question with an insane premise. And it's because someone along the lines, I gave them a list of questions generated from AI.”
Joe Weisenthal Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 13:03 Joe Weisenthal on Finance Podcasting, Country Music, and Response to Solana Ad.
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