Janet Yellen
5 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 25, 2020 by David Friedberg · said 48 times in 24 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by David Sacks (18), Jason Calacanis (15), Chamath Palihapitiya (12), David Friedberg (2), Rand Paul (1)
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2025 13 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
- DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
- Why Are So Many Companies Going Bankrupt In 2025? - David Friedberg
- Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
- JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
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2024 6 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 10 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2022 10 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
- E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 7 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
- E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- E33: Apple’s hypocrisy, America fails math, crypto’s regulatory correction, Clubhouse, UFOs & more
- E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about Janet Yellen, oldest first
Nov 25, 2020 positive
Oct 1, 2022 negative
Sacks: Yellen rejected Trump's proposal for 100-year US Treasury bonds
“When rates were like near zero, and we had the opportunity to refinance the U.S. Government debt using long-term rates, basically long-term bonds, and actually it was Trump who, you know, crazy Trump who suggested let's basically shift the debt to a hundred ye…”
Feb 9, 2024 neutral
Feb 15, 2025 negative
Mar 22, 2025 negative
Bessent: Yellen's Treasury shortened debt duration to suppress interest rates
“Yeah, look, I thought that it, that when rates were low, you're supposed to turn out rates. Exactly. And instead, the Treasury for the past few years has pulled rates in, and I think part of that was to keep rates lower, that they changed the issuance schedule…”