Francis Suarez

14 statements across 3 episodes · 10 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 23, 2021 by Chamath Palihapitiya · said 20 times in 9 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Chamath Palihapitiya (10), Jason Calacanis (5), David Sacks (3), Claire Cormier Thielke (2)

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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode

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Everything said about Francis Suarez, oldest first

Jan 23, 2021 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: Miami under Mayor Suarez achieved high GDP growth and fiscal surpluses
“The GDP growth is like Chinese GDP growth, 10%, eight percent, six and a half percent. He's running fiscal surpluses. You know, crime is down, down, down.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 23, 2021 ▶ 21:04 E18: Inauguration talk, breaking down the $1.9T stimulus, the case for recalling Gavin Newsom & more
Jun 3, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
The City of Miami currently has exactly 510 homeless individuals
“In Miami, in the city, which is one of 34 cities in the county, we have 510. Homeless right now in the city.”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2022 ▶ 23:18 #AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
Jun 3, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Miami reduced homelessness by 90% using a decentralized treatment network
“We reduce homelessness by about 90% with that network.”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2022 ▶ 23:09 #AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
Jun 3, 2022 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Miami ranks first nationally in wage growth and tech job migration
“We have 1.4% unemployment. We have, we're number one in the nation in wage growth. We're number one in the nation in tech jobs. We're number one in tech job migration. I think we've moved two trillion AUM in the last 18 months. And our VC pipeline grew by 200%…”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2022 ▶ 13:58 #AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
Jun 3, 2022 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Miami's tourist bed tax generates $50M annually for homelessness facilities
“It generates about fifty million dollars a year, which you can bond out, and we've created a decentralized set of facilities all across the MSA.”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2022 ▶ 23:02 #AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
Jun 3, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Miami's homicide rate dropped 23% last year, and 40% this year
“Our homicide rate went down by 23% last year, this year it's down by 40% from the 23% of last year.”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2022 ▶ 13:33 #AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
Jun 3, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Miami's budget doubled while keeping tax rates at 1960s lows
“We keep taxes as low as humanly possible. And shocker, our budget has doubled in size. Since we have kept taxes to the 19 sixties lows”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2022 ▶ 12:40 #AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
Jun 3, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Suarez: Miami has lowest unemployment and highest wage growth in US
“We have the lowest unemployment in America. We have the highest median wage growth in America. We, I lowered taxes to the lowest level in history, and we've seen a 140% growth in nine years.”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 1:43 The Formula for Building America's Happiest City: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez | All-In Live
Jun 3, 2025
Disclosure
Suarez would strongly consider serving as a US ambassador
“If the president called me and said, you know, I want you to be the US ambassador to, you know, a country that I have a passion to help. You know, in terms of the United States, in terms of their relationship and world peace and things of that nature which I t…”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 20:48 The Formula for Building America's Happiest City: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez | All-In Live
Jun 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Suarez: Brightline rail was entirely private and owned its right-of-way
“No, they had the right of way. So it was totally private.”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 10:13 The Formula for Building America's Happiest City: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez | All-In Live
Jun 3, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Suarez: Miami can become first major US city with zero homelessness
“We want to be the first major American city to have zero homeless, and we think we can get there.”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 1:28 The Formula for Building America's Happiest City: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez | All-In Live
Jun 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Suarez: Miami lowered taxes while tripling city budget to $1.5B
“I lowered taxes to the lowest level in history, and I took the city in 2009 as a councilman out of bankruptcy. So I got it in bankruptcy. We decided this is sort of the doge before doge. We decided not to raise taxes. We cut costs. We cut, you know, we didn't …”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 6:11 The Formula for Building America's Happiest City: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez | All-In Live
Jun 3, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Suarez: Miami leverages public housing dollars at a 15:1 to 20:1 ratio
“Housing costs have certainly gone up significantly, and we do everything we can to leverage public dollars and public assets like land to try to build projects at a 15 to one or 20 to one leverage rate. So for a hundred million dollars invested, we'll get two …”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 9:01 The Formula for Building America's Happiest City: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez | All-In Live
Jun 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Suarez: Miami unsheltered homelessness dropped to 11-year low of 546
“So, in homeless specifically, we are at an eleven-year low. We did our census, we do two census a year. We do one in January, one in the summer, and our January census had us at an eleven-year low at 546 homeless, unsheltered homeless in the entire city of Mia…”
Francis Suarez Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 1:01 The Formula for Building America's Happiest City: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez | All-In Live
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