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Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 51:31 David Friedberg And that's really where social security doesn't have any money to pay anymore. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 1:28:09 Jason Calacanis This could replace social security. 4 times in the scene
Dan Dreyfus: The Next AI Bottleneck is Copper
- ▶ 12:31 Dan Dreyfus So Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, pensions.
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 33:08 Jason Calacanis Social Security. 3 times in the scene
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 1:15:55 David Friedberg This idea that everyone gets an account, and you can track your account like a, which is a defined contribution program, is what all of Social Security should move to. 6 times in the scene
Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- ▶ 50:10 Adam Carolla You take, like, the retirement age, you know, you go, look, Social Security's not going to be able to keep up with this, so why don't we make the retirement age 70?
All-In's 2026 Predictions
- ▶ 42:13 David Friedberg So this is basically the problem with social security. 2 times in the scene
Howard Lutnick: How America Can Hit 6% GDP Growth in 2026
- ▶ 35:18 Howard Lutnick Who paid for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:55 Howard Lutnick That can fix, use that money to fix Social Security. 4 times in the scene
Oval Office Tour with President Trump
- ▶ 20:13 Donald J. Trump But no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime, so the workers want to work overtime, they don't get the tax that they would normally have to get, and that sort of stops it from happening.
Senator Rand Paul: Tariffs, Debt, China, and a Warning for America
Trump Takes On the Fed, US-Intel Deal, Why Bankruptcies Are Up, OpenAI's Longevity Breakthrough
- ▶ 52:57 Chamath Palihapitiya We could direct some of those gains to fund social security. 6 times in the scene
Winning the AI Race Part 5: President Trump on the AI Action Plan
- ▶ 32:43 Donald J. Trump No tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime.
AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes
- ▶ 1:25:28 David Friedberg Jake how of investing the retirement funds that we've mandated through social security, we should be taking the four and a half trillion dollars. 6 times in the scene
Senator Ron Johnson on the Senate showdown over Trump's Big Beautiful Bill | All-In Interview
- ▶ 4:33 Senator Ron Johnson You know, initially it was entitled Social Security, 3 times in the scene
Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
- ▶ 56:48 Ben Shapiro And unless you're willing to make serious systemic changes to things like Medicare and Medicaid and social security, you're not going to solve any of these problems.
The AI Cold War, Signalgate, CoreWeave IPO, Tariff Endgames, El Salvador Deportations
- ▶ 46:03 Jason Calacanis That's where big dollars are sitting, and obviously nobody wants to touch Social Security, despite 4 times in the scene
The Shocking Truth About DC Spending & Corruption - Scott Bessent
- ▶ 50:54 Jason Calacanis I talked last week on our podcast about Social Security.
- ▶ 57:07 Jason Calacanis That's what it's called, right, under social security.
Fixing the American Dream with Andrew Schulz
- ▶ 41:28 David Friedberg The US social security program is meant to be kind of the retirement program for folks that don't have access to private retirement accounts. 12 times in the scene
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 1:00:58 David Friedberg So Social Security's functionally going to be bankrupt in eight years. 5 times in the scene
DeepSeek Panic, US vs China, OpenAI $40B?, and Doge Delivers with Travis Kalanick and David Sacks
- ▶ 1:42:09 David Friedberg With Medicare and Social Security, discretionary spending is like, 20%. 2 times in the scene
Senator Kyrsten Sinema | All-In Summit 2024
- ▶ 11:36 Kyrsten Sinema On issue, on, on being able to fund things like Social Security and Medicare, and Congress is doing nothing to solve it, right?
Peter Thiel: The Coming Collapse No One Is Prepared For
- ▶ 37:38 Peter Thiel Got rewritten in the U.S. where you cannot discharge student debt even if you go bankrupt, and if you haven't paid it off by the time you're 65, your Social Security wage checks will be garnished.
JD Vance | All-In Summit 2024
Trump assassination attempt, Secret Service failure, Inside the RNC, VC liquidity problem
- ▶ 52:03 David Sacks They were foolishly willing to cut programs like Social Security or Medicare, saying that we had to cut the deficit while at the same time funding forever wars.
Meta's scorched earth approach to AI, Tesla's future, TikTok bill, FTC bans noncompetes, wealth tax
- ▶ 1:30:53 David Friedberg And the poll showed that 77% of registered voters in those states support basically an asset tax on ultra high net worth people, people worth over a hundred million dollars to keep social security intact. 7 times in the scene
E172: SBF gets 25 years, Trump's meme stock, RFK Jr picks VP, Biden's 2025 budget & more
- ▶ 1:08:12 Chamath Palihapitiya Well, at a minimum, don't you agree we should just allow people to opt out of social security and in a simple way of saying, I don't need it, and I'll take care of myself, use these proceeds for somebody else that could use it, that, who…
In conversation with Dean Phillips
- ▶ 59:18 Dean Phillips Every bit of it is now consumed by Social Security, Medicare, and our military.
- ▶ 1:00:19 Dean Phillips So here's what I would do, starting with Social Security. 5 times in the scene
Jared Kushner: Israel-Hamas War, paths forward, macro picture, AI
- ▶ 1:13:10 David Sacks Paul Ryan also wanted to ratchet back entitlements like social security, Medicare, and Trump thought that was suicidal for the GOP.
All-In Summit: Ro Khanna on China, political reform, major challenges facing the US and more
- ▶ 32:30 Jason Calacanis Now, now, sorry, real quick, now, now do Social Security and Medicare. 3 times in the scene
In conversation with Chris Christie
- ▶ 2:42 David Friedberg And then when you look at the demands on Social Security, Medicare, forecasts are that both of those systems necessarily go bankrupt, unless there's some extraordinary measures taken. 6 times in the scene
E140: LK-99, Sclerotic establishments, Fitch downgrades US debt, Trump indicted... again
- ▶ 53:02 David Friedberg Well, the one way is these entitlement programs, and so several Republican presidential candidates, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and Mike Pence, have all publicly stated on the, the campaign trail that they're promoting programs to cut… 3 times in the scene
In conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy
- ▶ 20:49 David Friedberg And we now have a 33 trillion dollar debt load and we have a one and a half trillion dollar annual deficit and by many projections, social security will be bankrupt in anywhere from 10 to 15 years.
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 35:22 David Friedberg That at some point here, our ability to actually fund the programs that we want to fund, whether they're social security, Medicare, or defense, the major cost outlays for the federal government, it's going to get further hindered and… 3 times in the scene
E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- ▶ 40:50 Jason Calacanis One of them is social security, retirement age, as we saw in other countries like France, where people are arguing over 6264 years old, whatever it is. 2 times in the scene
E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- ▶ 1:41 David Friedberg He and the others have made it their mission to convince us that reforming Social Security is the only way forward to survive.
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 24:14 Jason Calacanis You can see today there, uh, as the, the vertical line, about five percent of our GDP goes to Social Security, uh, today, and about another 5.5 goes to, uh, Medicare, Medicaid,
In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- ▶ 23:15 David Friedberg And then obviously there's social security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 David Friedberg I think this is my concern is, uh, sorry, but Robert, the, the, the comment you just made is the same comment I hear from both sides of the aisle, that we can't touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, because it would be so unpopular we… 3 times in the scene
E123: Trump indictment, de-dollarization, should VCs back Chinese AI? RIP Bob Lee
- ▶ 30:58 David Friedberg And Social Security right now is projected to go bankrupt sometime between 2030 and 20 35. 2 times in the scene
E120: Banking crisis and the great VC reset
- ▶ 34:44 David Friedberg We have that problem in the United States in the form of Social Security and these underfunded pension liabilities.
E115: The AI Search Wars: Google vs. Microsoft, Nordstream report, State of the Union
- ▶ 1:31:47 David Friedberg And the, the scary moment at the State of the Union, besides Biden's inability to kind of articulate much very well, which was, uh, honestly a really discouraging sight to see, was, you know, when he talked about where, you know, the… 6 times in the scene
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 32:26 David Friedberg And our social security, so one and a half trillion dollars, I mean, that alone 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:01 David Friedberg In addition to interest payments, Social Security and Medicare payments are also ballooning.
E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more
- ▶ 1:26:31 David Friedberg And you assume that the voter base will never vote to reduce social security or Medicare, uh, entitlement programs.
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:04:00 David Friedberg In a model for governing or model for a state where you provide socialized care for people through healthcare, socialized healthcare, or you provide socialized support for people through, you know, the social security system and other…
E1: US Response to COVID-19 & Impact on Startups, VC & Public Markets with David Friedberg
- ▶ 58:09 Chamath Palihapitiya All of those proceeds should go back to the United States Treasury, who should then use it to reinforce Social Security and Medicare, and everything else, because we are going to run a multi multi trillion dollar budget deficit to get out…