The Ledger
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Cuban: More people died during riots under Trump than under Biden
“We had more people die during riots during his term than Biden by a long shot”
Cuban ties 2022 inflation peak directly to Trump's 2020 oil deal
“And you know what matches up perfectly? What matches up perfectly is that 9.1% in 2022 and the day that that agreement ended. Where MBS and Russia limited production, that agreement ended it like this.”
Cuban: US border encounters match pre-pandemic levels under Trump
“And so now the number of encounters at the border is about the same as what it was right before the pandemic under the Trump administration.”
Cuban: Harris campaign tax plan excludes unrealized capital gains tax
“They've already, you know, just the tax rates are completely different than the Biden budget proposals, where there's no, you know unrealized capital gains, etc. They went to 28 and 28%, so it's not going to be what was proposed by Biden.”
Cuban commissioned Goldman Sachs index to short-hedge his Yahoo stock
“I had Goldman Sachs create an index of internet stocks that I thought sucked. And then I shorted that index because we, and we had to follow all the laws and I just had to have that short in place until I was able to do a real caller in the market on my Yahoo …”
Cuban: Trump chose weapon sales to Saudi Arabia over ending Yemen war
“And we had the opportunity to stop selling weapons, but He looked, the best I could tell, he looked at it as a sales opportunity to sell to MBS all these weapons, and he thought that was a positive. So, a lot of people died, and we're still in there today, so …”
Mark Cuban: Kamala Harris's immigration mandate was focused on Central America
“If you look at what her specific responsibility was, I alluded to it earlier, her job was to go to Central America and talk to the heads of the countries there and try to reduce the reasons why people were leaving their countries to go to the United States.”
Cuban: Tech leaders like Google and Meta are borrowing billions
“What's happening now is the market leaders, Google, et cetera, Meta, they're borrowing hundreds of millions, billions of dollars.”
Cuban: New York contributes more to federal treasury than Texas
“New York contributes more to the federal treasury, right, than Texas does.”
Cuban: Kamala Harris has specified a 28% capital gains tax rate
“She's been very specific that cap gains goes to 28%”