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Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 49:33 David Sacks By 1983, we actually had a very severe recession because Volcker had raised interest rates so much to tame inflation.
1929 vs 2025: Andrew Ross Sorkin on Crashes, Bubbles & Lessons Learned
- ▶ 7:36 Andrew Ross Sorkin But they were scared out of their mind about doing what they probably should have done, which is raise interest rates, but they couldn't pull off like a Volcker kind of thing.
Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
- ▶ 5:41 Scott Bessent Uh, you know, Paul Volcker brought down inflation, but it was also
Tucker Carlson: ICE Raids, LA Riots, Strong Economic Data, Politicized Fed, War with Iran?
- ▶ 1:09:08 David Sacks If you're a pal, it's better to take the risk of being Paul Volcker than Arthur Burns. 5 times in the scene
Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser
- ▶ 1:18:08 David Sacks I think his main incentive at this point is concern for his historical legacy, and specifically, he wants to be thought of like Volcker, not like Arthur Burns in the seventies. 3 times in the scene
E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- ▶ 38:51 David Sacks And you can see that it peaked in the early 19 eighties when Volcker decided to break the back of inflation by jacking up interest rates to like 18%.
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 34:33 Chamath Palihapitiya If you just start reading here, so I prefer the Volcker Greenspan approach, which is to recognize that the Fed is a little bit like the Delphic oracles.
E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 9:23 Chamath Palihapitiya We've known since Volcker era what we need to do to do that, which is you need to get interest rates to be greater than terminal inflation.
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 40:37 Jason Calacanis Sachs, you should read the Paul Volcker book, Keeping At It.
E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- ▶ 9:36 Jason Calacanis Like I just read Volcker's book. 6 times in the scene
E87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
- ▶ 46:54 David Sacks Paul Volcker proved that in the early 19 eighties, he had to raise interest rates as high as 20%, but he crushed the inflation, 19 seventies, but that's what it took.
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 1:35:16 David Sacks No, it is, it is like the anti-Reagan-Volker combination.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 15:45 Chamath Palihapitiya Be looked back on in time as our generations, Paul Volcker. 3 times in the scene
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 55:36 David Sacks And the thing that broke that was Paul Volcker jacking up interest rates. 2 times in the scene
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 47:47 David Sacks We had sort of, um, every year we had, um, increasing inflation because of the expectation game, and the thing that broke it was you had Paul Volcker come in at the Fed, and he jacked up interest rates, and, uh, he actually caused a pretty… 3 times in the scene
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 30:35 David Sacks He cuts the top marginal income tax rate from 70 to 50%, and I'd say equally important, you had Paul Volcker at the Fed, he breaks inflation, he jacks up interest rates, 2 times in the scene
E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more
- ▶ 55:52 David Sacks Uh, Paul Volcker at the Fed broke inflation that lowered interest rates enormously that allowed people to buy homes.