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Ezra Klein

5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 4 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 11, 2025 by Ezra Klein · said 18 times in 11 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (8), David Sacks (6), Nate Silver (1), Chamath Palihapitiya (1), Bill Gurley (1), Ben Shapiro (1)

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2025 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
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2022 3 mentions in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

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Apr 11, 2025 negative
Insight
Klein: Sound policies do not require constantly shifting defense arguments
“Usually when an idea is good, you don't need people jumping back and forth on it so often, going between these tariffs are a bad idea, but they're a smart negotiating ploy, to these tariffs plus are an actually great idea, and you should all calm down.”
Ezra Klein Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 20:41 The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ezra Klein: DOGE is a hack-and-slash operation destroying state capacity
“Doge to me is a It would be great if somebody tried it, but I see this as much more of a destruction of state capacity and a hack and slash operation.”
Ezra Klein Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 1:34:01 The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
Apr 11, 2025
Insight
Ezra Klein: Multi-decade corporate CapEx investments require stable trade policy
“You can't do all of these things at once, and it needs to be very stable. If you're going to get companies to do these long-term CapEx investment decisions that take decades to play out.”
Ezra Klein Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 40:25 The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
Apr 11, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Abundance agenda will fail without disrupters like Musk or Trump
“You'll never get the abundance agenda that you want. Because it's people like Elon or Trump who get things done.”
David Sacks Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 1:40:21 The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Insight
Klein: Democrats tend to subsidize demand while choking supply
“My book Abundance with Derek Thompson is about the tendency Democrats have to subsidize things where they are choking off the supply of the thing they want people to have more of.”
Ezra Klein Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 1:20:21 The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
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