Larry Summers
14 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 10 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 18, 2023 by Larry Summers · said 100 times in 41 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by David Sacks (33), David Friedberg (31), Jason Calacanis (13), Chamath Palihapitiya (7), Brad Gerstner (7), Scott Bessent (3), Philippe Laffont (3), Tucker Carlson (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 22 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
- Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- 12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 32 mentions in 8 episodes 4 per episode
- In conversation with President Trump
- E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 31 mentions in 14 episodes 2 per episode
- E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- All-In Summit: In conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow
- E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
- E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps
- E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
- E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
- E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about Larry Summers, oldest first
Sep 18, 2023
Summers: Washington policy errors stem from flawed judgment, not political malice
“It's a mistake To think whenever anybody makes a judgment that doesn't turn out right in Washington, that it's because they had some bad political motive and were playing politics, rather than they were using their best judgment and they turned out to be wrong…”
Sep 18, 2023 negative
Sep 18, 2023 positive
Summers: 1940s environmental regulations saved Los Angeles from unlivable smog
“If there had not been major regulation that was regarded as oppressive, totalitarian, wrong, and anti-market, beginning in the late 19 forties, it would be impossible for this gathering to exist because the smog in Los Angeles would be so profoundly serious.”
Oct 3, 2024
Friedberg: Post-stimulus inflation unfolded precisely as Larry Summers warned
“He did make that declaration against his own party, Mark, and he said this is the wrong thing. As a Democrat, he said this is the wrong thing to do, and they went forward with what they planned to do for various reasons. Some would argue political, some would …”
Apr 11, 2025 bearish
Apr 11, 2025 bearish
Summers: Trump's populist project is a Juan Perón approach destined to fail
“I do believe that it is fundamentally not new under the sun, just new in America. That it is the Juan Perón approach, which is very familiar to students of Latin American history in particular, and that the general experience of that approach is that its leade…”
Apr 11, 2025 bearish
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Summers: Major firms and universities report Godfather-like extortion from Trump administration
“I can assure you that your experience is not the experience of quite a number of the nation's major law firms. It is not the experience of quite a number of the nation's business leaders. It is not the experience of quite a number of the nation's universities …”
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Summers: Canceling Keystone Pipeline and pausing LNG exports were clear mistakes
“Canceling the Keystone Pipeline was a clear mistake. I thought the stopping a variety of things involving liquid natural gas were a clear mistake. So I think the Biden administration's approach to regulation that empowered every NGO with respect to stopping tr…”
Apr 11, 2025
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Apr 11, 2025 bearish
Summers: DOGE cuts to IRS tax collection will increase the national deficit
“My belief is that the revenue loss from the Doge's destruction of Significant part of the functioning of our nation's tax collection system is likely to exceed in terms of contributing more to the deficit than any savings that it successfully realizes.”
Nov 22, 2025 negative