US GDP

“We think that GDP is going to contract in, in the next quarter by a quarter to a third.”

“China was, at the beginning of the century, 10% of the U.S. GDP. Today it's three quarters of the U.S. GDP.”

“The GDP numbers that just came out smashed at 3.3% year over year in the fourth quarter. Expectations were just two percent.”

“So I think unemployment is going back up. I think GDP is going to shrink.”

“85% of this quarter's GDP was induced by the government. If you sub it out, so take 2.8% and multiply it by .15, that is the true growth ex the United States government that exists in the United States economy today.”

“Every three hundred billion we cut is about a percent of GDP”

“Within a 10 mile radius of here, 25% of the GDP of the U.S. Pulsates through here.”

“What you're probably going to see in Q two is a really hot GDP print. If I'm a betting man, which I am, I think the GDP print's going to come in above three, not quite four, but above three.”

“And I think, you know, if Atlanta Fed is right, I don't think they are, but I think it's going to be in the low to mid threes. It's going to be meaningfully greater than what people are expecting.”

“GDP rose at a 1.2% pace in the first half of this year, down from 2.5% last year.”

“40% of US GDP growth this year is AI. And AI companies have accounted for 80% of the gain in US stocks this year.”

“If we just allow it to happen, if we allow the innovators to do what they do best, I think this is going to drive four or five percent GDP growth for the next few years.”

“I actually think you are going to get three to four rate cuts. I actually think you are going to see a reacceleration of GDP.”

“We have a two percent tailwind to GDP growth right now that's coming from this AI boom, this capex boom that's happening, and so this is, I think, a very good thing for the US economy.”

“We're gonna end the year with a nominal growth close to six percent. So we will be bringing down the Deficit to GDP. I believe it peaked 6.8% for the calendar year, previous year, and we're going to be in the mid fives”

“And then if they cut rates, and that's the thing, I need a new Fed chair who cuts rates, and if they cut rates... You'll see sixes.”

“They could be this quarter, as in the first quarter, so then I'd say, well, you have to come back and see me when it's through five, but then you'll come back in a couple of months, and then you'd say, Howard, I just spoke to you for an hour. I don't, you know…”