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Software Stocks Implode, Claude's Hit List, State of the Union Reactions, Trump's Tariff Pivot
- ▶ 1:19:20 Jason Calacanis He went after Jerome Powell.
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 47:47 Jason Calacanis Background on Warsh, 55 years old, 20 years younger, approximately, ah, to Powell, who's currently in charge. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:33 Brad Gerstner Number one, I think if Warsh saw the situation he saw, we saw in June of 21, when the cost of a cargo container from China went from 1500 dollars to 15,000 dollars and we were screaming to raise rates and Powell did nothing. 3 times in the scene
Inside the White House Tech Dinner, Weak Jobs Report, Tariffs Court Challenge, Google Wins Antitrust
- ▶ 57:22 David Sacks I would say that now in the latest jobs report, Powell should really cut 50 basis points.
Why Are So Many Companies Going Bankrupt In 2025? - David Friedberg
- ▶ 12:53 David Sacks You got Powell sitting there. 5 times in the scene
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 9:54 Jason Calacanis You remember he was threatening to replace Jay Powell when he did the site visit and all that drama. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 David Sacks And the best example is Powell himself. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:08 Jason Calacanis And Powell, it's not like Powell has, like, five of the votes. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Jason Calacanis The, it wasn't, you keep saying that Powell makes his decision. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:34 David Sacks You got Powell sitting there. 3 times in the scene
AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- ▶ 44:09 Chamath Palihapitiya I think Powell is really holding on white knuckled to a position that probably doesn't
Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
- ▶ 11:58 Jason Calacanis Uh, Trump replaced the Fed chair. 2 times in the scene
Trump vs Powell, Solving the Debt Crisis, The $10T AGI Prize, GENIUS Act Becomes Law
- ▶ 4:28 Jason Calacanis Maybe this, uh, soft launch of the firing of Jerome Powell. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:57 David Friedberg So I'm not sure like the firing of Jerome Powell necessarily solves the US fiscal challenge, which is 3 times in the scene
Big Beautiful Bill, Elon/Trump, Dollar Down Big, Harvard's Money Problems, Figma IPO
- ▶ 1:11:04 Jason Calacanis And I think Powell said he would have cut if there weren't the tariff, you know, curveball thrown into the system, which is, I think, what most of us thought. 2 times in the scene
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 1:19:41 Jason Calacanis And then, you know, Trump is going hard at Powell saying he's gonna fire him, saying he's an idiot, he's stupid, blah, blah, blah. 10 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 1:01:22 Chamath Palihapitiya If Jerome Powell stays politicized, his incentive will be to keep interest rates where they are. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:14 Jason Calacanis Your claim, I just want to be clear here, is that Powell was playing politics, not working towards the dual mandate, which is very clear, 14 times in the scene
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 12:50 Chamath Palihapitiya And then the last thing I'll say is now to top it all off, I think that Jerome Powell will see the writing on the wall. 2 times in the scene
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 16:49 Jason Calacanis And then Powell, obviously Trump's been mixing it up with him, saying he's gonna fire him, he's not gonna fire him. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:07 Chamath Palihapitiya Do you think Powell thinks that this Trump thing is going to work?
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 2:17 Andrew Ross Sorkin Is this a Jay Powell's in the job?
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 50:38 Chamath Palihapitiya So he goes through these interviews, and he sits with Jerome Powell, goes through that interview, sits with, I think, Lael Brainard, you know, everybody.
- ▶ 52:39 Tim Dillon How would you play up your Indian-ness with Jerome Powell?
DOGE updates + Liberation Day Tariff Reactions with Ben Shapiro and Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 52:49 Jason Calacanis You know, what I'm referring to, Chamap, is you said yesterday, Jerome Powell, you're on the clock, so maybe you could explain what you meant by that.
- ▶ 59:35 Ben Shapiro For example, if there is an inflationary effect to the tariffs in terms of, in terms of price, does that mean that Jerome Powell is going to eject additional liquidity into the markets by, by decreasing interest rates?
White House BTS, Google buys Wiz, Treasury vs Fed, Space Rescue
- ▶ 1:03:29 Chamath Palihapitiya And it just doesn't seem to me that Powell really understands the gravity of this situation. 3 times in the scene
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 58:35 David Friedberg You saw Jerome Powell, Jerome Powell this morning said he would not step aside if asked to resign by Donald Trump. 3 times in the scene
Markets turn Trump, Long rates spike, Election home stretch, Influencer mania, Saving Starbucks
- ▶ 16:20 David Sacks But that was not Powell's rhetoric. 2 times in the scene
Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- ▶ 7:18 Jason Calacanis Jay Powell basically said the Fed thinks inflation is coming down to around two percent nicely, and they don't want the job market to soften any further than it already has. 4 times in the scene
Massive jobs revision, Kamala wealth tax, polls vs prediction markets, end of race-based admissions
- ▶ 11:58 David Friedberg And then obviously chairman Powell has his big speech happening on Friday. 2 times in the scene
Yen Carry Trade, Recession odds grow, Buffett cash pile, Google ruled monopoly, Kamala picks Walz
- ▶ 30:54 Chamath Palihapitiya And so Powell's going to have to cut.
Kamala surges, Trump at NABJ, recession fears, Middle East escalation, Ackman postpones IPO
- ▶ 33:21 David Friedberg Jerome Powell said, quote, a reduction in our policy rate could be on the table in September if inflation continues to fall. 3 times in the scene
Biden chaos, Soft landing secured? AI sentiment turns bearish, French elections
- ▶ 4:51 Jason Calacanis That was one of J-Pow's major efforts, and all the stimmy savings, as you pointed out, Shamroth, are long gone. 4 times in the scene
Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser
- ▶ 1:09:47 David Friedberg In response to the condition in the economy today, Elizabeth Warren sent this note to Jerome Powell three days ago saying, Dear Mr. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:29 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think that that will create not just enormous empirical justification for Jerome Powell, it'll be exacerbated by what Friedberg just showed, which is the political pressure that he's going to be under to cut 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:35 David Sacks And furthermore, pal's comments were very hawkish. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:37 David Friedberg What does Jerome Powell have to gain or lose by bowing to political pressure? 14 times in the scene
E171: DOJ sues Apple, AI arms race, Reddit IPO, Realtor settlement & more
- ▶ 1:03:04 Chamath Palihapitiya I mean, by the way, sorry, the, the other thing is, like, Powell did say, finally, it looks pretty likely we're gonna get these three cuts, so we're gonna be down to four and a half to four, seven, five on Fed funds by the end of the year. 4 times in the scene
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 32:44 Chamath Palihapitiya I'll pick Jay Powell and the Fed capitulation. 4 times in the scene
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:15:11 Chamath Palihapitiya So I think what happened this week is actually pretty important because I think the markets were really trying to force Jerome Powell to start the cutting cycle, and now they had to move the date at which they could expect cuts out by a…
All-In Summit: In conversation with Larry Summers
- ▶ 7:24 Chamath Palihapitiya So if you're Jay Powell, if you had Jay Powell's job right now, what is the delta? 6 times in the scene
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- ▶ 16:54 Jason Calacanis They believe interest rates have to go higher despite the fact that inflation has plummeted and it feels like a for Powell that this is a mission accomplished moment.
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 16:18 Brad Gerstner Um, you know, the quote, uh, from Chairman Powell that has everybody a little bit perplexed is on the one hand, he says, we're data dependent. 3 times in the scene
E126: Big Tech blow-out, Powell’s recession warning, lab-grown meat, RFK Jr shakes up race & more
- ▶ 12:51 David Sacks Now you're right in a parallel track, there was an interesting interview that pal did. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:27 David Sacks Or look, I could be wrong about the recession, but Powell is saying it. 4 times in the scene
E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 4:07 Jason Calacanis I guess they replaced somebody every two years and Jerome Powell was placed in 2018 by Trump. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:11 Chamath Palihapitiya So we're in this weird middle path that, that Jay Powell we're talking about.
- ▶ 1:11:23 Chamath Palihapitiya Powell said that this week.
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 41:44 David Sacks I mean, pal two days before the bank failures was testifying that he didn't see stress in the banking system. 2 times in the scene
E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more
- ▶ 33:13 David Sacks Where's Powell? 3 times in the scene
E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
- ▶ 2:23 Chamath Palihapitiya I watched Powell's speech and it was really amazing because in December he was extremely hawkish and he was basically like, listen, we're going to keep rates higher than you like and longer than you want. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:11 Chamath Palihapitiya Right now, it doesn't look like it is, and Powell was clear, and it's true, we're in a deflationary cycle. 3 times in the scene
E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
- ▶ 19:04 David Friedberg I think that the, you know, it's sort of like, like Jerome Powell this, this past year, right? 2 times in the scene
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 12:33 David Friedberg It was a tie for me between Jerome Powell and Liz Truss. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:27 Chamath Palihapitiya I would say it's, uh, Jerome Powell and the Fed and their staunch 3 times in the scene
E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- ▶ 11:41 Chamath Palihapitiya Jerome Powell's speech. 2 times in the scene
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 24:40 Chamath Palihapitiya And hopefully the history books, whatever Jay Powell does, I think has been good.
E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- ▶ 32:24 Chamath Palihapitiya Powell Powell said he'd rather overcorrect and break things because he has a toolbox to fix the broken bones, but he doesn't have a toolbox to fix if they undercorrect and they have rampant inflation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:41 Chamath Palihapitiya This is, I think this is what Powell meant, which is, you know, he'll take it as far as it takes, and then he can fix it on the backend by reintroducing, you know, quantitative easing and reintroducing lower interest rates to stimulate…
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 39:50 David Sacks And here's the crazy thing is Jay Powell. 5 times in the scene
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 14:13 David Sacks And you finally had Powell kind of throw in the towel on his rhetoric around soft landing.
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 1:06:55 Chamath Palihapitiya And then you have Powell basically saying, yeah, we're going to go another 75 and, you know, we're going to take rates to probably somewhere between four and five percent.
E90: Twitter subpoenas, market overview, Pelosi's Taiwan visit & more
- ▶ 25:04 David Sacks I think what the, what Powell and what the Fed says today about rates is way less important than what the inflation data will actually show in a few months.
E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- ▶ 8:20 David Sacks Well, Jay Powell at the Fed, because he reacted way too slowly, but also the Biden administration for all the spending they did. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:17 Chamath Palihapitiya The problem is that if Powell caters to too much of that feedback, he's not going to do what he's supposed to do and why he's put in that job. 2 times in the scene
E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
- ▶ 39:23 Chamath Palihapitiya and I think if you read the fed minutes more carefully, I think Jerome Powell is basically ready to do the same thing.
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 1:04:33 Chamath Palihapitiya Jerome Powell just said, I will tank the economy in order to beat inflation. 2 times in the scene
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 13:46 David Sacks Jay Powell is the number one culprit, but the number two culprit is the Biden administration.
- ▶ 18:01 David Friedberg And the Fed's long-term goal, remember, is to provide a stated goal of Jerome Powell in particular right now, this changes over time, but generally the intention of the Federal Reserve is to make liquidity, to make cash available
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 1:32:50 David Sacks You had Powell say a year ago that inflation was transitory, and then they didn't react to it till the end of the year. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:11 David Sacks Biden and Powell are going to go down as the worst
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 51:35 Chamath Palihapitiya And then the second thing was Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve.
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 1:10:48 Chamath Palihapitiya By the way, the other thing that we saw today was or this week was Jerome Powell. 3 times in the scene
E65: VC markup dynamics, Russia/US tensions over Ukraine, Altos Labs raises $3B, Stripe mafia & more
- ▶ 40:20 Chamath Palihapitiya I think you're, you're, you forgot a couple of key things, which is that the FOMC meeting happened this week and Powell basically said, look, we're going to start tightening in March. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:42 David Sacks We had a nice relief rally going until I think some of the words that Powell used was that there was plenty of room for rate hikes. 6 times in the scene
E64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
- ▶ 45:43 Chamath Palihapitiya And at the end of 2018, uh, Jerome Powell decided to raise rates and we raised rates and then enter 2019 and, uh, the Chinese economy turned over and, uh, we realized that their economy was not nearly as strong as we thought it would be. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:21 Chamath Palihapitiya We have an FOMC meeting that's going to happen next week where Jerome Powell and the, you know, the fed has to decide what to do in the face of incomplete data.
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 30:13 Chamath Palihapitiya So in 2018, it looked like there was going to be inflation, and Powell tried to get ahead of it, and he raised rates, and the, the market completely collapsed, and they were looking, I think, at Chinese data at the time, and it looked…
E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- ▶ 30:47 Chamath Palihapitiya And, you know, he supports institutions or has historically like the CBO.
- ▶ 58:51 Chamath Palihapitiya Two, um, two folks on the Federal Reserve Board resigned, and then Powell issued, uh, a whole bunch of, I think, new laws or regulations inside the Fed to
E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
- ▶ 7:52 Jason Calacanis Well, the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell called it transitory numerous times over the past two years.
E57: Understanding Omicron, tech stocks plummet, VC's great resignation, Jack Dorsey's departure
- ▶ 29:56 Chamath Palihapitiya Powell, you know, basically killed the market. 2 times in the scene
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 56:35 David Sacks You already are hearing Biden rattling the saber saying that Powell may not be his choice for a second term. 3 times in the scene
E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more
- ▶ 18:00 Chamath Palihapitiya Both Jerome Powell and Gary Gensler basically said, crypto is here to stay.
- ▶ 30:49 Chamath Palihapitiya So, uh, that's why I think Powell and Gensler had to say some version of that on the record, which is, you know, we're not going to ban this stuff because they know it's not possible.
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 28:41 Chamath Palihapitiya Like, um, Jerome Powell gave a speech, I think it was two or three weeks ago in Jackson Hole. 2 times in the scene
E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more
- ▶ 46:36 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, gave this landmark speech, and he basically said, we are going to keep rates at zero for the next half decade.
E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
- ▶ 44:44 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, like I think Jerome Powell's commentary, um, I applaud, which is like, you know, he's saying all the right things, which is, we will do everything possible.
- ▶ 51:39 Chamath Palihapitiya So as an example, to David's point, um, that's much more visible to Jay Powell, um, or to Steve Mnuchin