US government spending

“My theory on this is that if you have government spending as a, you know, share of the economy at around 20% from a tax and spending standpoint, things basically work, ok? But as you try to go up to 25 and 30%, it starts to break.”

“The economy is a little bit shaky, and it's being propped up by massive amounts of government spending, like we talked about on a previous episode. We're running unsustainably high levels of deficit and debt. We're running, what, two trillion dollar a year def…”

“I think the only path is you have to cut spending, which is recessionary, government spending, which is recessionary, so you're gonna trigger an economic recession, you're gonna have to have some amount of inflation, and you're gonna have to have a spike in un…”

“I think that's gonna be the great uncovering of twenty-twenty-six is we're gonna see on the order of trillions of dollars.”

“The core problem with wealth inequality in this country, the core problem with inflation in this country, the core problem, all of it roots back to excess government spending. End of story.”

“The total net worth of all people that are worth over fifty million dollars is only 23 trillion. You could take 10% of their net worth and it would only cover three months of fiscal spending, today's fiscal spending.”