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- ▶ 35:14 David Friedberg This is a triumvirate that I don't think in history, you've had three people who are so close in these positions, one leading in kind of market activity with Druck, one running treasury and the other one running the fed.
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- ▶ 1:23:43 David Friedberg From a fiscal perspective, we can't just get the fed to start buying bonds.
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- ▶ 16:11 David Friedberg At the same time, there was some probability that the Fed Reserve was going to raise rates this week. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:23:11 Jason Calacanis More Fed rate cuts coming. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:18:11 Jason Calacanis Listen, I'm happy anybody gets a job, but what you do is then you say, we don't trust the numbers, and we should get rid of the Fed, and we should get rid of the numbers. 4 times in the scene
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- ▶ 15:03 Paul Atkins The Fed plays a role as well, um, you know, with margining and the securities market.
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- ▶ 23:22 David Sacks What's your view, I guess, today on where rates are and how the Fed has acted over the past year relative to what needs to be done to soften the effects of the stage and the cycle that we're in? 5 times in the scene
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- ▶ 46:38 David Friedberg Fed action will do to the capacity for excess deficit spending. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 47:38 Jason Calacanis Trump has nominated Kevin Warsh as the new Federal Reserve Chair. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:07 Jason Calacanis Chamath's not here this week, but he's been saying maybe the Fed should be disbanded. 14 times in the scene
Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
- ▶ 1:07:51 Howard Lutnick And then if they cut rates, and that's the thing, I need a new Fed chair who cuts rates, and if they cut rates.
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- ▶ 1:06:09 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think that that's why it probably makes sense for the Federal Reserve and all these folks to basically write the white paper now that says we're not in a position to do it, so the states get the memo.
Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
- ▶ 5:00 Scott Bessent When people ask me, what are you looking for in a fed chair?
- ▶ 16:38 Scott Bessent Which is what the Biden administration did, and it met many commentators, whether it was Greg Ipp in the Wall Street Journal, the toxic Paul Krugman, who seems to have been booted from the New York Times and is relegated to Substack, or…
- ▶ 33:03 Jason Calacanis The Fed's actions, Secretary Besson, because I read your article, and while I understand the mandate to get to two percent inflation, why it's two percent, not three, I'm, I'm curious about your take on that, because I did a little… 10 times in the scene
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- ▶ 41:28 Brad Gerstner You know, the Fed is still, you know, got the market tight because they're seeing, you know, the market at all-time highs.
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- ▶ 7:21 Andrew Ross Sorkin And you had a Fed. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:03 Andrew Ross Sorkin One of the things that Charlie does is he defies, or at least appears at one point to defy the Federal Reserve, which is trying to clamp down on speculation.
- ▶ 36:41 Andrew Ross Sorkin Obviously, the Fed doesn't flood the system.
Multicoin Capital’s Kyle Samani on Internet Capital Markets
- ▶ 8:30 Kyle Samani Reading the journal and think the Fed's going to cut interest rates?
Oval Office Tour with President Trump
- ▶ 16:15 Donald J. Trump As crazy as it sounds, it's bigger than him and bigger than a stupid person running the Fed. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 22:03 unnamed speaker Does the Fed? 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:05 Chamath Palihapitiya Do you think that, um, we need to think more about the underlying leverage that the Fed enables in market participants, and specifically, you know, I've said this, I, I worry that we financialize so much of the, the economy that, you know,… 2 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- ▶ 30:03 David Friedberg The Federal Reserve has to buy all the treasuries to fund the business, the government, that money printing, and all of those inefficient programs for lending
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- ▶ 37:39 Jason Calacanis Which then puts the Fed obviously in difficult position with their mandate to get to two, Freeberg.
- ▶ 48:08 Jason Calacanis Did maybe the Fed take too long to, uh, get towards cuts in September? 5 times in the scene
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- ▶ 13:11 David Sacks So you got this too late Powell and the rest of his fed cronies.
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- ▶ 9:39 Jason Calacanis So, lots of stuff going on here, and I think the number one story remains that Trump is still fighting with the Fed. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:33 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that the Fed is no different than any other appointee to a part of the government, which is that they are partisan. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:03 David Friedberg The members of the Board of Governors at the Fed, they're appointed to fourteen-year terms specifically to try and insulate them from the political cycles that occur. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:27 David Sacks This is the president pushing back on, I think, a Fed that's been overly political. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Chamath Palihapitiya Jason, what should the Fed do that is valuable today? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:31 Jason Calacanis Additionally, that what the Fed said, not just Powell, the entire Fed said, we don't know the impact of Trump's tariff policy, and since they didn't understand that, and it was unprecedented as well, 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:17 David Sacks If you've, if you've come to this realization about the CDC, why can't you come to it about the fed?
- ▶ 1:27:34 David Friedberg Maybe it's, uh, the secret camera from the Fed. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:02:54 Jason Calacanis GDP growth was 50% higher than expectations in Q-two, as the Fed held rates at 4.25%. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:40 Jason Calacanis Friedberg, your thoughts on the Fed, the GDP print, and maybe you could get into the granular 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 6:42 Scott Bessent Uh, really changes, and if we can also, uh, have lower interest rates because it's non-inflationary, and I, I, I think the Fed's gonna have to be open to this idea.
- ▶ 11:52 Jason Calacanis Should the Fed remain independent? 8 times in the scene
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- ▶ 4:58 Jason Calacanis Reported Jerome Powell out as Fed chair in 20, 25 spiked up to, uh, 30% on Wednesday before dropping back down to 20%. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:01 David Friedberg And so making adjustments to the short end of the treasury curve, making overnight loans cheaper, which is what the fed can do, will stimulate the economy and make more money flow easily because now you'll be able to borrow money overnight…
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- ▶ 1:21:44 Keith Rabois Basically, with maybe the exception of the Federal Reserve Chair, said that the President can fire pretty much anybody he wants.
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- ▶ 11:46 David Friedberg And if the Fed cuts rates, you're going to see inflation climb a little bit more.
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- ▶ 38:29 David Friedberg And if the Fed cuts rates, you're going to see inflation climb a little bit more.
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- ▶ 15:32 Chamath Palihapitiya You have interest rates incredibly starting to compress even in the absence of the Federal Reserve willing to act on data.
- ▶ 1:23:07 Chamath Palihapitiya There is enough data that can justify cutting rates. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:03:34 Chamath Palihapitiya I think that the Federal Reserve has veered away from actually controlling the money supply in the best long-term interests of the United States and more towards what benefits the short term. 16 times in the scene
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- ▶ 13:23 Jason Calacanis Here's the, uh, prediction from Polymarket on what will happen to Fed rate cuts in 20, 25.
- ▶ 24:04 David Friedberg And the only way to keep those interest rates low will be for the Federal Reserve to try and step in and buy those bonds, which will devalue the dollar.
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- ▶ 12:11 Jason Calacanis The Fed held their rates steady again this week.
- ▶ 20:54 David Friedberg But remember, I think the Fed has a whole bunch of data that they're still gonna need to wait on. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 3:03 Chamath Palihapitiya So typically what's happened is you can cry to the white house and they'll call the federal reserve and they will buy it. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 50:12 Chamath Palihapitiya He had always wanted to work in government and they tried to get him to join the federal reserve.
- ▶ 1:08:08 Jason Calacanis Uh, looks like the Federal Reserve has a new chairman. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 53:39 Chamath Palihapitiya That is more dictated by the Fed and how they price the front end of the curve.
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- ▶ 1:00:29 Jason Calacanis The Fed held rate steady on Wednesday. 18 times in the scene
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- ▶ 15:47 Scott Bessent So, these were rescue-sized packages, and even Larry Summers, I remember there was a great debate between Larry Summers and Paul Krugman, and Summers, I think, said, look, this is at least nine hundred billion, a trillion too much, and the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:03 Chamath Palihapitiya So can you talk about then how you will work with the Fed in sort of the change of all of this financial machinery? 6 times in the scene
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- ▶ 43:04 David Friedberg That means Social Security is either going to get cut or the Fed's going to print a ton of money to keep Social Security benefits. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:10:00 Jason Calacanis We have to cut rates three or four times, put pressure on the Fed.
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- ▶ 30:54 Jason Calacanis That same month, the Fed cut 50 bips, then it cut another 25 in December.
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- ▶ 1:15:13 Chamath Palihapitiya We have a broken Fed.
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- ▶ 1:37:58 Jason Calacanis The Fed, um, held rates.
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- ▶ 1:23 unnamed speaker And steady inflation from the large stimulus of money from both central banks and the U.S. government caused the Federal Reserve, which is the U.S. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:32 unnamed speaker So there's a central, in the U S it's our federal reserve and the U S government are the two players here and the federal reserve ultimately would in this model and historically, obviously during the pandemic and during 2008, they would go… 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 55:50 Chamath Palihapitiya The other example, just to remind you guys, is during the pandemic, the Federal Reserve stepped in and started buying
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- ▶ 1:39:49 Steve Bannon These people understand their communities are being destroyed by the, look, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury were up front
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- ▶ 14:31 David Sacks In terms of where the economy is going, the, the thing that I would come back to is interest rates, and this is the thing that Freebird was talking about, which is, even though the Fed has cut rates by 50 basis points, the long-term rates,… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:26 Jason Calacanis It's quite paradoxical that the Fed sets that rate, right? 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 14:47 David Sacks I mean, that, that's, what's basically happening right now is that the market is afraid that inflation is not whipped and is going to resurface and the fed may have to pivot from the pivot and raise interest rates. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:17 David Friedberg Because ultimately, I think it is inevitable that the Federal Reserve in the United States is going to need to buy 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:14 David Sacks Part of the reason why they're an all-time high is because the Fed telegraphed that we'd have big rate cuts this year. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:16 David Friedberg So for the US to actually execute this policy, when we have a fundamental mandate for the Federal Reserve to keep unemployment low,
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- ▶ 4:39 Ingo Uytdehaage Uh, so in the US, uh, we have our own access to the FED.
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- ▶ 34:29 David Friedberg I will, however, point out that the federal balance sheet, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet swelled during COVID from four trillion dollars to eight trillion dollars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:08 David Friedberg That the fiscal policy and the monetary policy of the federal government and the federal reserve is largely to account, and I'm not going to use the word blame, but to account for the inflation we saw in the cost of everything from energy…
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- ▶ 6:54 Jason Calacanis The Fed just cut rates, 50 bips, and the stock market is, uh, tearing it up right now. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:31 David Sacks It's when basically the Fed raises short-term interest rates above long-term interest rates. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:31 David Sacks And we just had a ton of capital come into the industry because the Fed and the federal government airdropped 10 trillion dollars of liquidity onto the economy in reaction to COVID.
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- ▶ 6:30 Jason Calacanis This is what the Fed has been trying to do to cool off inflation, right? 5 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:03:53 David Friedberg The Fed balance sheet. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 27:51 Jason Calacanis You know, since the fed started hiking rates and you hear anecdotally about all of your friends, 88% of millennials right now are actually preparing to be laid off. 4 times in the scene
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- ▶ 33:10 David Friedberg What's been, I think, a lot of chatter amongst friends of ours who are active in the market that at a policy meeting on Wednesday, the Fed held rates steady. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 5:30 Jason Calacanis Jay Powell said the fed doesn't need, he said this earlier this week, he doesn't need to see the two percent inflation to start the cuts. 10 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:18:18 David Sacks Volcker basically crushed inflation even at the cost of a recession, and he is worshiped today as the best Fed chair ever, whereas Burns let inflation slip the leash in the 19 seventies, and he's not thought of very highly. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:15:40 David Sacks The reason why they were having that conversation is because the fed jacked up interest rates really suddenly from roughly zero to five, five and a half percent.
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- ▶ 17:49 David Friedberg As we all know, the Fed did 11 rate hikes in 2022 and 23. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:50 Chamath Palihapitiya Nick, you can please show the tweet, but there was an article that came out that said one of the Fed governors has apparently massively plagiarized most of the work that got her to the position of being Fed governor. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:52 Chamath Palihapitiya And by bringing prices further down, they would have further brought down inflation, and they would have pulled forward these rate cuts that we had been expecting from the Fed. 3 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:04:06 David Sacks And it still seems to me that that's a little bit up in the air because inflation has not come down to the Fed's target of two percent. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 6:19 David Sacks The Fed has announced that they're going to end BTFP, the Bank Term Funding Program, on March 11th.
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- ▶ 16:31 Jason Calacanis We had a slightly hotter than expected December CPI interest rates hit a 22 year high in July, as everybody knows when the fed raised the range from 5.25 to 5.5.
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- ▶ 38:26 David Sacks My biggest business deal is whatever the Fed decides to do to replace or extend BTFP, the Bank Term Funding Program. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:20 David Sacks They started pricing in big fed rate cuts, you know, let's call it one and a half percent. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 26:29 Chamath Palihapitiya So simple example, Nick, if you just want to throw this up, but there was a, this is the federal reserves data. 4 times in the scene
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- ▶ 1:02:01 Dean Phillips Well, to your point, to your point, I think it was the Fed or it was Treasury that published a study.
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- ▶ 19:36 Chamath Palihapitiya It's actually pretty positive for equities, for startups, because now the Fed has a reason to actually say, okay, the economy has cooled off. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 David Friedberg And to Chamath's point, this might accelerate either Fed action,
- ▶ 1:20:13 David Friedberg The federal government and the role that the federal government has in funding industry, in hiring individuals, in pumping dollars into markets, I think has gotten so far beyond the tell that we, as we know, are being sloshed back and…
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- ▶ 1:08:06 David Friedberg Eventually the Fed monetizes all this stuff.
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