Inflation Reduction Act
also referred to as: ira
16 statements across 8 episodes · 8 bullish · 8 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2022 by David Sacks · said 55 times in 24 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by David Sacks (16), David Friedberg (14), Chamath Palihapitiya (13), Jason Calacanis (5), Phil Deutsch (2), Ro Khanna (1), Pete Buttigieg (1), Gavin Baker (1)
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2025 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- OpenAI's GPT-5 Flop, AI's Unlimited Market, China's Big Advantage, Rise in Socialism, Housing Crisis
- Pete Buttigieg: The Left's Identity Crisis, Wealth Tax, 2024 Mistakes, Plans for 2028
- Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
- Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 14 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- All-In Summit: Nuclear fusion and the potential for energy abundance
- E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- All-In Summit: "Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols" with Rob Henderson
- All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
- E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 28 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
- E92: Adam Neumann's second act, a16z's $350M bet, housing policy, Inflation Reduction Act & more
- E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
- E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
- E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
Everything said about Inflation Reduction Act, oldest first
Jul 29, 2022 negative
Aug 20, 2022 bearish
Aug 20, 2022 negative
Sacks: Extending ACA subsidies turns Inflation Reduction Act into $155B deficit builder
“If you extend that subsidy three years from now, just that one item alone makes the deficit reduction of this bill goes from three hundred and five billion over the 10 year period. To negative one hundred fifty five billion. So just that one item, if you conti…”
Aug 20, 2022 negative
Aug 20, 2022 bullish
Friedberg: Inflation Reduction Act will drive VC influx into climate tech
“I personally think we are going to see a significant influx of venture capital and support for a lot of these climate tech and, you know, new energy material and manufacturing projects that otherwise may have been held back because the subsidy will kickstart.”
Aug 20, 2022 negative
Chamath: New IRS agents will target middle and upper-middle income taxpayers
“When you apply 87,000 people and task them incrementally with doing a job, it's not going to touch these folks that are already audited. It's going to touch the folks that are not audited, and by and large, a much, much larger majority of middle income and upp…”
Aug 20, 2022 bearish
Aug 20, 2022 positive
Aug 20, 2022 positive
Aug 26, 2022 negative
Sacks: Republican support for CHIPS and infrastructure enabled the Inflation Reduction Act
“Basically the Republicans foolishly Went along with infrastructure and with the CHIPS Act, they should have forced Biden to use up reconciliation on one of those bills, and then they wouldn't have been able to get through the seven hundred fifty billion inflat…”
Sep 1, 2022 bullish
Palihapitiya: IRA will transform US national security calculus within 10-15 years
“The great thing about the IRA and what Chuck Schumer did is actually will be written in 10 or 15 years from now, because when we get to energy independence, when every home is resilient, the national security calculus in America changes wholeheartedly overnigh…”
Nov 19, 2022 positive
Chamath: Inflation Reduction Act gives US path to permanent energy independence
“My belief, quite honestly, is that the reason the IRA was so important is as it is the most clarified piece of Legislation we've seen that essentially puts all forms of energy on a level playing field and has the chance to get America to permanent energy indep…”
Nov 19, 2022 positive
May 26, 2023 positive
Palihapitiya: Biden's signature laws will create energy independence and a peace dividend
“The BIL, the IRA, and the CHIPS Act, all three, the biggest components in all three bills, this is Biden's signature legislation, is creating energy independence for America, which will have an enormous Peace dividend. You will not fight these stupid, endless …”
Aug 23, 2024 negative
Apr 11, 2025 positive
Chamath: Biden IRA tax credits removed investment uncertainty in energy markets
“Inside the IRA, I think that there were two things, and I've said this pretty repeatedly, but I just want to put it on the record again. The ITC credits and the ITC transfer markets for those credits, the tax equity markets, are critical industries in America …”