DFC

8 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 30, 2026 by Ben Black · across every show →

Everything said about DFC, oldest first

Apr 30, 2026
Assertion Supported
Black: DFC capital authorization expanded from $60 billion to $205 billion
“So remember, we went from sixty billion to two hundred and five billion.”
Ben Black Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 17:45 Running DC Like Wall Street: CEO of America's Investment Fund · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 30, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Black: DFC partners with Chubb to provide maritime war risk reinsurance
“We're working with Chubb as lead underwriter, great American insurance company run by Evan Greenberg. There's a whole host of American insurers working alongside with them, and they're providing up to twenty million, and we're doing reinsurance on the back end…”
Ben Black Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 36:11 Running DC Like Wall Street: CEO of America's Investment Fund · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 30, 2026
Disclosure
Black: DFC requires partner countries to co-invest in projects
“And it's why we have them, we have our partner countries co-invest with us.”
Ben Black Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 12:03 Running DC Like Wall Street: CEO of America's Investment Fund · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 30, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Black: DFC prioritizes delivering returns for US taxpayers
“Through the mobilization of private capital, we need to pursue, and we do, ah, execute on US foreign strategic interests. We move the needle for the development of our partners and allies, and really more than anything else, we deliver a return for the US taxp…”
Ben Black Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 9:19 Running DC Like Wall Street: CEO of America's Investment Fund · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 30, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Black: China's state global capital outspends the US seven to one
“That's really a key part of this, because if it were just using government dollars, we wouldn't be any different from China. And they're seven times the size of us.”
Ben Black Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 21:44 Running DC Like Wall Street: CEO of America's Investment Fund · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 30, 2026
Assertion Supported
Black: DFC and OPIC completed over 3,000 political risk insurance transactions
“Over the course of the DFC and OPEC's existence, there were over 3000 insurance transactions that have occurred.”
Ben Black Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 34:02 Running DC Like Wall Street: CEO of America's Investment Fund · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 30, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Black: DFC and OPIC insurance products boast near 100% recovery rate
“In the history of the DFC and Opix insurance product Pretty much close to a hundred percent recoveries.”
Ben Black Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 34:50 Running DC Like Wall Street: CEO of America's Investment Fund · Joe Lonsdale
Apr 30, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Black: DFC-backed rare earths mine was acquired in just three months
“There was a rare earths mine we invested in that recently it was just announced. It was going to be acquired. So it's in three months, a fantastic return for the DFC”
Ben Black Apr 30, 2026 ▶ 27:06 Running DC Like Wall Street: CEO of America's Investment Fund · Joe Lonsdale
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