US government debt

4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2021 by David Sacks · across every show →

Everything said about US government debt, oldest first

May 31, 2021
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Biden's $6T budget would raise US debt to 117% of GDP
“Biden's six trillion dollar budget would increase our budget debt, our debt from a hundred percent of GDP to a 117% if he gets his way.”
David Sacks May 31, 2021 ▶ 1:06:55 E34: Wuhan lab leak theory, India's traceability law, Coinbase fact check, Big Tech takes Hollywood
Dec 11, 2021 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
David Sacks projects Fed rate hikes will cost US $150 billion annually.
“The Fed is now saying that they're projecting two to three rate increases next year. So let's call that 75 basis points. Multiply that by the close to 30 trillion of government debt that you're talking about, Jason. That's about a hundred and fifty billion a y…”
David Sacks Dec 11, 2021 ▶ 43:06 E58: November's CPI, preparing for a downturn, macro outlook, Better.com's botched layoffs & more
Jun 24, 2022 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sacks: Fed bought 54% of US government debt in 2021
“So you go back to last year, the Fed bought 54% of the government's debt, despite the fact That the economy was growing at like five percent GDP, that it was bouncing back really strongly from COVID, that you had the stock market at all time highs, and yet the…”
David Sacks Jun 24, 2022 ▶ 13:11 E84: Markets update, crypto collapse, Russia/Ukraine endgame, state of the podcast
Feb 15, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Chamath: The US has $10 trillion in debt to refinance soon
“And the thing that Yellen and Biden did, which in hindsight now was extremely dangerous, is they issued so much short term paper that in totality, we have 10 trillion dollars we need to finance in the next six to nine months.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 15, 2025 ▶ 1:15:19 JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
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