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Prediction Held up
Friedberg: Energy monetization ramp-up won't cover US deficit within 4 years
“But I'm not sure that the ramp up is gonna be fast enough to make up for the deficit over the next four years.”
David Friedberg May 17, 2025 ▶ 1:16:00 Trump's Big Week: Middle East Trip, China Deal, Pharma EO, "Big, Beautiful Bill" with Ben Shapiro
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Friedberg predicts Waymo will execute a major financing, IPO, or merger
“You could see something happen with Waymo this year that could either be something like a massive financing, an IPO, or a merger or acquisition with one of the big ride-sharing companies. I don't know if that makes as much strategic sense as I've thought about…”
David Friedberg Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 55:27 2025 Predictions: Tech, Business, Media, Politics!
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Friedberg: Ukraine could see up to an 80% decline in planted acres
“There is an expectation that we could see up to an 80% decline in planted acres in the Ukraine”
David Friedberg Apr 1, 2022 ▶ 1:20:47 E74: Market update, inverted yield curve, immigration, new SPAC rules, $FB smears TikTok and more
Prediction Didn’t hold up
David Friedberg predicts Stripe will execute the largest tech IPO in history
“And so Stripe's IPO could be the biggest tech IPO ever. I think they've been talking about doing a direct listing. By the way, I don't know the guys. I don't know the investors. I don't know the company. I'm not an investor. So I don't have any information wha…”
David Friedberg Dec 29, 2021 ▶ 20:44 E61: 2022 Predictions! Business, politics, science, tech, crypto, & more
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Friedberg: Market could drop 30-40% if Democrats win Georgia runoffs
“If the Democrats look like they're getting much more money into the state and they're actually gonna, you know, get people to the polls and to the voting booths and actually get into this runoff on January fifth and actually flip get both of those seats to be …”
David Friedberg Nov 11, 2020 ▶ 33:32 E12: Biden wins, Pfizer vaccine, markets rip, Trump's next act, COVID endgame scenarios & more
Prediction Held up
Friedberg predicts Trump might skip all primary debates and win
“I don't know if he's going to show up. I don't know why he would, if he's up. I mean, it would be, it would just be such a Trump move to just not show up to any of these debates and just like get elected.”
David Friedberg Aug 26, 2023 ▶ 1:34:01 E143: Nvidia smashes earnings, Arm walks the plank, M&A market, Vivek dominates GOP debate & more
Prediction Held up
Friedberg: Trump should recover quickly from COVID due to antibody therapy
“These you know taking these antibodies to the coronavirus, and he got eight grams of this immunoglobulin therapy that is basically a bunch of antibodies that'll eliminate the virus, and they're not widely available, they're not publicly available, these treatm…”
David Friedberg Oct 3, 2020 ▶ 1:57 E9: Trump has COVID, First debate reactions, Coinbase letter response & more
Assertion Contradicted
Friedberg: US nuclear plant regulatory approval costs ballooned to ~$10B
“It's something like ten billion dollars now from maybe, you know, a hundred million you know, two decades ago.”
David Friedberg Sep 19, 2020 ▶ 1:10:35 E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
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