Ronald Reagan, every mention
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Rahm Emanuel: Trump's Foreign Policy, China, Europe's Decline, Immigration & DSA vs Democrats
- ▶ 3:54 Rahm Emanuel Was it the fact that post Reagan, Clinton's economy grew the most, jobs grew the most, and income disparity shrunk the most, and people were calling it the unipower, that no country, both economically, politically, militarily,
War with Iran + Pentagon vs Anthropic with Under Secretary of War Emil Michael
- ▶ 36:57 Jason Calacanis I would have voted for Reagan in this situation.
Bernie Sanders Says Stop All AI, China's Breakthrough, Inflation Down, Golden Age in 2026?
- ▶ 49:21 David Sacks Let me remind you of what happened in the early 19 eighties under Ronald Reagan. 4 times in the scene
Ro Khanna Calls Out Both Parties: Immigration, Tech & Free Speech
Oval Office Tour with President Trump
- ▶ 2:50 Donald J. Trump We have over here, we have Ronald Reagan. 2 times in the scene
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 4:10 Jason Calacanis Was it Reagan? 3 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 4: Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, Chris Wright, and Doug Burgum
- ▶ 5:18 Scott Bessent Under Reagan, we had what I would call a deregulatory boom, because it's hard for anyone, everyone in this room to remember, but everything used to be regulated.
Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- ▶ 1:01:22 Keith Rabois Reagan was peaked out at 93%. 2 times in the scene
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 1:12:16 David Sacks We've had tax rates, you know, under Reagan or Clinton in the twenties.
The Great Tariff Debate with David Sacks, Larry Summers, and Ezra Klein
- ▶ 30:21 David Sacks You're saying that somehow it happened under Reagan or something like that?
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
- ▶ 57:27 David Friedberg Maybe they were, I mean, maybe they were the compromising party, because, I mean, tell me another modern Democrat president that's had any point of view on balancing the budget and creating a surplus, which I think was aligned with the… 2 times in the scene
Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland
- ▶ 5:06 Senator Ted Cruz Well, there is a cause and effect, and you go back to 1987, and 1987 is when Ronald Reagan signed amnesty into place.
2024 Election Night Livestream with the Besties!
- ▶ 1:25:23 Newt Gingrich And even with Reagan or a contract with America, um, I don't think I ever had a feeling like, you know, this guy's campaign for nine years. 2 times in the scene
Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
- ▶ 31:48 Peter Thiel There was a nineteen-eighties Reagan-Thatcher move, which was to massively cut taxes, deregulate, allow lots of companies to merge and combine, and, and, um, it was sort of a one-time way to make the economy a lot bigger
Elon Musk | All-In Summit 2024
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Break up Google, Starbucks CEO out, Kamala’s price controls, Boeing disaster, Kursk offensive
- ▶ 1:09:35 David Sacks That's why we had huge lines of the gas pumps is because we had, uh, price controls on gas, and those lines of the pump went away almost overnight when Ronald Reagan came in and removed the price caps on, on gas.
Hot Swap growing, donors revolt, President Kamala? SCOTUS breakdown: Immunity, Chevron, Censorship
- ▶ 53:22 David Sacks Look, when, when this decision, the Chevron decision came down in 1984, at the height of the Reagan revolution, conservatives actually liked it.
- ▶ 1:10:01 Chamath Palihapitiya Can any of us really understand what all of the interplay was when Ronald Reagan decides to work around a weapons embargo, sell weapons to Iran, take money, funnel it, and fund the Sandinistas.
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 25:54 Jason Calacanis If it was like Reagan, where they were like, oh god, he's got 18 months left, we're gonna ride this thing out, and yeah, maybe we let him have a quiet thing, but to actually put him up for another four years is the issue here.
In conversation with President Trump
- ▶ 4:26 Donald J. Trump The biggest tax cuts, bigger than the Reagan tax cuts, but they found regulations, and the regulation cuts were even more effective, and that's where we had the great economy, and that's where we had the most jobs ever produced.
- ▶ 30:23 Donald J. Trump That's a very radical stance, and hopefully that's all gonna be taken off the table now, but just to put it simply, it's now up to the states, and like Ronald Reagan, I'm a believer in the exceptions, the three exceptions, as you know,…
Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser
- ▶ 1:20:22 Jason Calacanis Famously Reagan pushed Volcker to get rate cuts.
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 1:28:15 Jason Calacanis This comes from Americans for tax reform, which was done by a Reagan era, an NGO, I think, that was formed by a former Reagan administration. 2 times in the scene
E174: Inflation stays hot, AI disclosure bill, Drone warfare, defense startups & more
- ▶ 39:07 David Sacks 81 or 82, but then the economy came roaring back by 83, and Reagan got elected in 84.
E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- ▶ 51:53 David Sacks And Freeberg's right that I think in the absolute best economy, or best years of the best economy, so it's like, you know, the best year of the Reagan boom and the best year of the Clinton boom when we had the government surplus, I think… 2 times in the scene
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
- ▶ 1:05:41 Jason Calacanis Just to give you a, everybody obviously refers to Reagan as the oldest president prior to this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:49 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, no, I think the, this isn't a corollary exactly because when he ran, when Reagan ran for a second term, he was cognitively sharp. 3 times in the scene
E163: Market rips, Media RIFs, Texas defies Biden, Fintech reckoning, ARkStorm 2.0 & more
- ▶ 53:02 Tucker Carlson 1980 election, rather, 1984 election between Mondale and Reagan. 2 times in the scene
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 29:09 David Sacks Look, at the end of the day, the question that people ask themselves, which is the question that Ronald Reagan asked voters in 1980 is, are you better off than you were four years ago?
In conversation with Dean Phillips
- ▶ 20:40 Jason Calacanis Or do you think this is sort of a Ronald Reagan situation where he might look back on it
E149: Hamas terror attacks in Israel: fallout, reaction, next steps
- ▶ 1:00:46 Chamath Palihapitiya And I think that this is sort of Clinton, Reagan.
E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more
- ▶ 9:28 David Sacks I mean, the one that always gets mentioned is when Reagan and Tip O'Neill cut a deal, and they were able to reform entitlements and make some changes to those programs, and they kind of did it arm in arm, and that worked.
All-In Summit: In conversation with Graham Allison
- ▶ 3:19 Graham Allison So first, ah, ah, as I wrote in this book, which was published just as Reagan, sorry, as Trump became president, ah, ah, in relations between the US and China, expect things to get worse before they get worse.
In conversation with Chris Christie
- ▶ 53:18 Chris Christie The problem has been that we haven't had presidential leadership on this issue since Reagan. 6 times in the scene
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 30:37 David Sacks Exceptional, and we're most exceptional when we're trying to set an example for other nations, where we're trying to be the shining city on a hill, as Reagan put it.
- ▶ 1:04:38 Vivek Ramaswamy If Ronald Reagan were alive and well today, I would not be running in this race.
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 55:45 Chamath Palihapitiya Ronald Reagan. 2 times in the scene
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 57:44 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The vaccine industry succeeded in getting Ronald Reagan to sign a law, and my uncle was also, you know, a group that was pressured by Wyeth, which was losing 20 dollars in downstream liabilities on every vaccine it made because of… 3 times in the scene
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 49:57 Chamath Palihapitiya When Reagan came in, wasn't, wasn't the highest tax rate, like, like, 70%? 3 times in the scene
E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 5:11 David Sacks And, you know, if you see polling of the Republican primary is he understands that it's not good enough just to have this sort of Reagan s totally hands off government approach.
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 1:38:10 David Sacks You got to do, you got to do what Ronald Reagan did, which is join hands with Tip O'Neill.
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 22:36 Chamath Palihapitiya A lot of this crisis in mental health started because Reagan defunded all the psychiatric hospitals, he emptied them in California. 6 times in the scene
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 58:45 David Sacks And I think there is a serious point here, which is that as much as Thatcher and Reagan were the two towering heroic figures of the 19 eighties, I think zombie Thatcherism is not going to be electorally viable 2 times in the scene
E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
- ▶ 37:12 Jason Calacanis If you're, you know, thinking it's the former Reagan cabinet member, not James Baker.
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 41:19 David Sacks And it really, it doesn't matter whether Reagan was president or Bill Clinton and so on.
- ▶ 54:09 David Sacks I remember when Reagan was president and Jets to GDP was 30%, people were saying that he was this like, you know, wild spender. 2 times in the scene
E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more
- ▶ 19:26 Chamath Palihapitiya And the scale of Reagan, if the Democrats also don't figure out how to clean up their act, because the other message that's so interesting that I took away is the legislative agenda that works is actually what Biden has always believed.
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 40:40 Jason Calacanis He basically says Reagan came to him offsite where they knew they wouldn't be recorded and told him, do not raise rates.
E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security
- ▶ 1:06:15 David Sacks Um, you go back to the 19 eighties and, uh, Ronald Reagan, the, who had spent his entire career being a cold warrior, um, saw the opportunity to basically do business with, with Gorbachev. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:12 David Sacks An arms control treaty with the Russians that Reagan and Gorbachev signed. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:27 Jason Calacanis When you were a kid, did you have a Reagan poster in your room? 12 times in the scene
E89: GDP growth negative in Q2, $SHOP layoffs, Alzheimer's fraud, Ginkgo acquires Zymergen & more
- ▶ 15:31 Jason Calacanis Like at one point, Baker and Ray took Reagan and Volcker into a room off of the White House, so it wasn't recorded and just said Volcker to Volcker, the president does not want you to raise rates going into the 84 election, full stop, and…
- ▶ 1:18:26 David Sacks Were you about to say Reagan? 2 times in the scene
E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
- ▶ 1:36:27 David Sacks So Reagan in 80 and 84, and then Herbert Walker Bush in, uh, in 88.
#AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks
- ▶ 33:53 Glenn Greenwald Bush-Cheney foreign policy in opposition to Reagan economics. 2 times in the scene
E83: Market slide continues, and how to address Uvalde
- ▶ 1:20:05 Brad Gerstner After the assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan, amazingly, Republicans found their voice, and they said, let's have an assault
#AIS: Tim Urban on political discourse + Keith Rabois on early-stage investing in 2022
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.
E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein
- ▶ 1:10:59 David Sacks Even Ronald Reagan, a governor, had signed a law liberalizing abortion in California.
E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
- ▶ 46:18 David Sacks You had Ronald Reagan, and then George Herbert Walker Bush win three landslide elections, 1980 four,
E72: Impact of sanctions, deglobalization, food shortage risks, macroeconomic outlook and more
- ▶ 1:07:03 Chamath Palihapitiya I just want to reiterate it since Reagan, I can, I can, 2 times in the scene
E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more
- ▶ 1:30:39 David Sacks Look, I still believe in the idea of peace through strength, like Reagan said, ok?
E68: Trudeau invokes emergency powers, Bitcoin vs. government, Tiger Global's new strategy and more
- ▶ 1:20:00 David Sacks And if you read Andrew Sullivan's blog, he will talk about how he remembers back in the 19 eighties that Fauci was sort of public enemy number one in the gay community because of his position on this during the Reagan administration.
E67: Revisiting Rogan, Canadian truckers' protest, fusion breakthrough, $MSFT's savvy move & more
- ▶ 1:16:42 Jason Calacanis Basically, the CIA used Executive Order 12 three three three, uh, which was signed by Reagan in 1981 to gather data on U.S. citizens.
E63: Insurrection indictments, human rights in the US and abroad, groundbreaking MS study and more
- ▶ 56:18 David Sacks Well, I think, actually, I think Ronald Reagan did a really good job with this.
E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
- ▶ 7:21 Jason Calacanis Uh, and when Reagan
- ▶ 40:16 Jason Calacanis If you look back on the five or six last presidents, Reagan, a 142% increase. 2 times in the scene
E55: Valuing crypto projects, Rivian worth $100B+, inflation: causes and corrections and more
- ▶ 55:46 David Sacks It got Reagan elected in 84.
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 48:38 David Sacks Um, so you had, it, it set the stage for the boom in the Reagan era and beyond, and, and the Clinton era as well. 2 times in the scene
E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- ▶ 15:26 David Sacks That's what Reagan did with the air traffic controllers. 2 times in the scene
E30: Ramifications of Biden's proposed capital gains tax hike, founder psychology & more
- ▶ 6:47 David Sacks And, you know, that led to some of the best years of economic performance, GDP growth in the US, productivity growth, uh, deficit reduction, um, you know, and so, you know, I think we're, we're, we're, we are experimenting with breaking…
- ▶ 27:30 David Sacks I think it's the, the, the right solution is somewhere between what, what Reagan and, and Bill Clinton did.
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 0:30 Jason Calacanis Representing Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and rich people everywhere, David the Rain Man Sachs.
- ▶ 17:36 Chamath Palihapitiya Reagan comes in and says, you know what, we're going to simplify the tax code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:40 David Sacks I call this the Reagan Clinton boom. 4 times in the scene
E25: Biden's vaccine mandate, "equity" in distribution, NFT speculation, impact of inflation & more
- ▶ 55:20 David Sacks This is why Ronald Reagan
E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
- ▶ 53:09 Chamath Palihapitiya How do you actually give some, you know, the, the crazy thing about Reagan, I mean, we all forget, but Reagan was the one that defunded all of the 2 times in the scene
E16: Reflecting on the riots at the US Capitol, plus: Georgia runoffs, vaccine distribution & more
- ▶ 1:17:13 Jason Calacanis Ronald Reagan. 2 times in the scene
E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- ▶ 16:33 David Sacks There was a sort of a Reaganite cutting of bureaucratic red tape wherever they could.
- ▶ 42:06 David Sacks Because what you're discussing is like a very, really kind of classical Republican or Reaganite idea, right?
E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
- ▶ 10:25 Michael Newman I have been obsessively following politics since, uh, the Reagan election of 1980.
- ▶ 1:09:38 Jason Calacanis I'm not saying people looting stores are correct, but what I'm saying is George Bush and Ronald Reagan, your heroes, Bill Clinton, Obama, other people's heroes on this call, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:59:28 David Sacks You know, when he won in 92, we had three straight Republican presidential terms, Ronald Reagan, incredibly successful president, then his successor, basically Reagan won a, Bush won a third term for Reagan, but he was a weak candidate,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:28:11 Phil Hellmuth There was a lot of excitement about Reagan who came, you know, from Hollywood.
E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- ▶ 51:56 Chamath Palihapitiya Of our lifetimes, our lifetimes, so, you know, seventies onwards, um, uh, was Reagan, and it's basically been decaying ever since.
E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
- ▶ 29:02 Chamath Palihapitiya The reality is maybe he defunded or underfunded a bunch of things, but the hollowing out of our institutions have been happening for 40 years, and it hot started with Reagan.