government

“The government only gives you one break as an investor, which is tax deferral of unrealized gains.”

“When governments recapitalize banks, the recovery and the equity markets and employment tend to happen more quickly than when governments simply buy their bad loans.”

“The government only gives you one advantage As an investor, and that's the non-taxation of unrealized gains, and so you better do something about that”

“There are only three ways a government can raise revenue. We can either get it through current taxation, borrowing, which means future taxation, or inflating away the real value of existing debt. Which is taxing the past.”

“Nothing has changed, and so we can expect inflation at some point because the government is printing a lot of money.”

“Once you've moved people off paper money, there's no place to hide. And so that's how the government acquires power through that, because once they do that, well, think of all the things that you can do with that, right? One of the things you can do is you can…”

“Seniorage is a great power. Why would we ever give that up? There's no reason to give it up, and governments, generally speaking, amass power. They don't shed themselves of different powers”

“If governments are not going to embrace it honestly, it should go down to just the technology value of it.”

“The government transferred six hundred and thirty billion dollars of excess payments To cover off lost wages. It covered it by an extra six hundred and thirty billion before the Biden 1.9 trillion dollar stimulus.”

“Now, on the government side, they're going to keep rates lower because they can't hurt the distribution of wealth problem, and this is the main thing, is whether it's Japan setting up a wealth distribution council, whether it's China talking about the common p…”

“The governments are often regulating price minimums and even escalating price minimums, which can create unique and interesting and positively skewed investment opportunities for investors.”

“We've also got the strength of governance whereby we're separate from government. It's not political here in Canada.”

“We have a company called HyperScience that processes billions of forms for the government to help basically process everything from DMV to Social Security payouts.”

“I think there's going to be a huge shift either on the part of the government or independent payers to a value-based outcome”

“People who are, say, under 45 today, millennial and Gen Z, really have a very different lived experience, partly because of how old they were when the financial crisis happened, and what sort of jobs they got, what that felt like for them, whether they could a…”

“We do have a benchmark from the government of inflation plus four to five percent over the long term that they've given us.”