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Epstein Deep Dive: Prince Andrew Arrested, Global Network, Mythology, Reid Hoffman Files
- ▶ 1:29:43 Michael Tracey Uh, Bill Clinton and Larry Summers and Reid Hoffman, they're the ones who are truly implicated by their association with Epstein.
Epstein Files Fallout, Nvidia Risks, Burry's Bad Bet, Google's Breakthrough, Tether's Boom
- ▶ 2:04 Jason Calacanis Friend of the pod, Larry Summers, was a main character in them, and he was communicating with Epstein up until 2019, asking him,
- ▶ 11:45 Jason Calacanis I think that we're gonna have a bunch of Larry Summers-like embarrassing things.
Trump AI Speech & Action Plan, DC Summit Recap, Hot GDP Print, Trade Deals, Altman Warns No Privacy
- ▶ 1:15:20 David Sacks Look, I'm not speaking as an insider here, but we said at the time that all of that was happening, and Larry Summers was on the pod preaching doom.
Winning the AI Race Part 2: Vice President JD Vance
12 Day War, Socialism Wins in NYC, Stocks All-Time High, AI Copyright, Science Corner
- ▶ 1:26:03 David Sacks We saw this when Jim Cramer started touting the Black Monday that was coming, and Larry Summers has been out there constantly with his TDS. 2 times in the scene
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 48:24 David Sacks I mean, Larry Summers was on our pod with that big debate that we did, and he was predicting doom. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:29 Tucker Carlson Economists, including Larry Summers, never really gotten a straight answer.
Bond crisis looming? GOP abandons DOGE, Google disrupts Search with AI, OpenAI buys Jony Ive's IO
- ▶ 30:12 David Sacks It could be the moment, but you know, I remember the first week of April when Larry Summers came on the pod and said that the markets were melting down and that was a different moment that he was trying to sell.
Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- ▶ 7:57 Philippe Laffont Is that dealer, is that dealer Larry Summers? 3 times in the scene
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
- ▶ 56:27 David Sacks Look, I spent 80 minutes debating this topic with Larry Summers three weeks ago. 3 times in the scene
Trump Rally or Bessent Put? Elon Back at Tesla, Google's Gemini Problem, China's Thorium Discovery
- ▶ 12:08 David Sacks You know, I flagged this in a previous episode that we did with Larry Summers, where I said that 25 years ago it was a huge mistake to walk China into the WTO.
Trump vs Harvard, Nvidia export controls, how DEI killed Hollywood with Tim Dillon
- ▶ 0:09 Jason Calacanis Uh, thanks to Larry Summers and Ezra Klein for joining us for the great tariff debate. 2 times in the scene
The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
- ▶ 15:47 Scott Bessent So, these were rescue-sized packages, and even Larry Summers, I remember there was a great debate between Larry Summers and Paul Krugman, and Summers, I think, said, look, this is at least nine hundred billion, a trillion too much, and the… 3 times in the scene
Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- ▶ 37:04 David Sacks Do you think Larry Summers was wrong when in Q one, the first quarter of the Biden Harris administration, Larry Summers warned that if you pass another two trillion of COVID stimulus, like they were planning to do, that could set off… 4 times in the scene
Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 1:08:30 Chamath Palihapitiya And so I think if they just make a few phone calls, they'll figure out that this is a really terrible idea.
In conversation with President Trump
- ▶ 8:33 David Friedberg Larry Summers made a comment the other day, and I thought maybe you could respond to his tweet that the tax cuts coupled with the tariffs that you've proposed would cause a massive, I think he called it the mother of all stagflation, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:51 David Friedberg I also am concerned very, um, I think very rightly so, and I think he acknowledges the concerns that were mentioned by Larry Summers that tariffs plus tax cuts could lead to a serious inflation and 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:59 David Sacks I mean, kind of like same thing with like the Larry Summers thing.
- ▶ 1:17:07 David Sacks He had nice words to say about Larry Summers. 2 times in the scene
DOJ targets Nvidia, Meme stock comeback, Trump fundraiser in SF, Apple/OpenAI, Texas stock market
- ▶ 13:05 David Sacks Larry Summers spoke at the same conference that the note did. 2 times in the scene
Scarlett Johansson vs OpenAI, Nvidia's trillion-dollar problem, a vibecession, plastic in our balls
- ▶ 47:03 David Sacks Well, Larry Summers warned in the first quarter of the Biden administration that if you pass an unnecessary two trillion dollars of COVID stimulus, you would produce inflation. 2 times in the scene
GPT-4o launches, Glue demo, Ohalo breakthrough, Druck's Argentina bet, did Google kill Perplexity?
- ▶ 1:06:21 David Sacks Remember Larry Summers did that study where he said the real inflation rate would be 18% or would have peaked at 18% if you include a cost of borrowing.
E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- ▶ 18:30 David Friedberg Larry Summers came out and said, you have to take seriously the possibility that the next rate move will be upwards rather than downwards. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:03 David Sacks And I think this is why Larry is fundamentally pretty bearish on rates going down is the government's financing costs are so huge.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 17:14 David Friedberg Well, Larry Summers put out a note saying that he thinks that the rates are gonna going to stay higher than the market is predicting based on the yield curve right now. 2 times in the scene
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 34:24 Chamath Palihapitiya This is a, this was what Larry Summers said, and I just think it's such an unbelievable quote that is just worth internalizing.
E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps
- ▶ 34:06 Chamath Palihapitiya All these ex-faculty and ex-individuals, Larry Summers, sort of leading say, this is outrageous, have an opinion.
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 15:52 Chamath Palihapitiya I thought Larry had the line of the summit, Larry Summers, where he said, self-esteem should come from achievement and not the opposite, which is that achievement should come from self-esteem. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:07 David Sacks Remember what Larry Summers said at the summit?
All-In Summit: In conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow
- ▶ 22:59 David Friedberg Um, and we heard from Larry Summers earlier today. 2 times in the scene
E144: Biden targets Elon, BRICS challenges the West, Tiger hit piece & more
- ▶ 55:59 David Sacks Listen to what Larry Summers said.
E142: "Rich Men North of Richmond" hits #1, upward mobility, real estate capital crunch, Trump RICO
- ▶ 1:09:02 David Sacks Larry Summers warned about this because the federal government has such huge financing needs.
E140: LK-99, Sclerotic establishments, Fitch downgrades US debt, Trump indicted... again
- ▶ 1:08:25 David Friedberg We can have this conversation with Larry Summers himself at the All In Summit in September.
E137: Inflation cools, market rips, Ripple/MSFT beat regulators, NATO summit, cocktails of youth
- ▶ 3:19 Jason Calacanis I think all in summit, 20, 23 speaker, Larry Summers has been pretty vocal about this. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:47 Chamath Palihapitiya So I think that Larry is right.
- ▶ 11:33 David Sacks So certainly the odds now of a soft landing have gone up, and the thing that's sort of surprising about what Larry Summers is saying is that if you believe that inflation's gonna come roaring back, that's certainly a contrarian bet.
- ▶ 16:50 Jason Calacanis Freeberg in the summer's camp and some other people's camp. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:04 David Friedberg That is the argument that Larry Summers and other contrarian economists, contrarian to the administration's policy, have been making.
- ▶ 1:03:40 David Friedberg We have the fifth bestie, Brad Gerstner, Larry Summers, and a few others that we can't announce just yet.
E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
- ▶ 32:18 Brad Gerstner Now Larry Summers has described Jolts as a much more, that's job openings, ok?
- ▶ 55:00 Brad Gerstner And, you know, Summers was complaining last year that Jolts wasn't going down fast enough.
E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
- ▶ 2:54 Brad Gerstner You know, Larry Summers was there, and I think a lot of the people who called 22 right were looking for a hard landing in Q-one of this year, probably including 3 times in the scene
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 14:39 Brad Gerstner And by the end of 2022, when you had Larry Summers and others who were going out and saying, we don't know what the upper bound of inflation and rates is, that's really scary to the markets.
E132: SEC goes after crypto giants, Sequoia splits, LIV/PGA, Messi's deal + LIVE Q&A!
- ▶ 22:36 David Sacks Larry Summers told them that you're going to cause inflation, and even the seven hundred fifty billion dollars scoped down version that they ultimately passed caused a lot of inflation, and it caused the problems that we have now that…
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 40:50 Brad Gerstner The fear that inflation is uncapped, the way Larry Summers was articulate in November and December, is less today than it was.
E114: Markets update: whipsaw macro picture, big tech, startup mass extinction event, VC reckoning
- ▶ 8:09 David Friedberg The one challenge, you know, Larry Summers has been harping on since last spring, all the way through the summer and the fall.
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- ▶ 35:27 Chamath Palihapitiya There was an interesting thing that Larry Summers did, I think for Bloomberg, where he was asked whether this was Lehman or Enron.
E97: SPAC updates, public/private market overview, Putin's end game & more
- ▶ 28:21 David Friedberg I mean, Larry Summers had some good tweets this week. 4 times in the scene
E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more
- ▶ 48:02 David Friedberg Larry Summers, former
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 14:14 David Sacks Of stimulus on straight party lines, the ARP, the American Rescue Plan, after Larry Summers said, economists in his own party said, this is going to create inflation, don't do it.
E47: Facebook's week from hell, Ellen Pao on sexism in Elizabeth Holmes coverage, Newsom wins & more
- ▶ 13:25 David Friedberg One of the other problems, but one of the other problems of UBI that Larry Summers has been, he's the former U S secretary of treasury has been on the record about, um, is the inflationary effect. 2 times in the scene
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 12:41 Jason Calacanis The Larry Summers rule.
E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
- ▶ 26:54 David Sacks And the person who described it to, to Warren is, um, Larry Summers. 4 times in the scene