Manny Friedman
11 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 23, 2018 by Manny Friedman · across every show →
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Jul 23, 2018 positive
Friedman: TARP was brilliant and its critics misunderstand systemic risk
“And they did a brilliant, remarkable job. I can't believe that people still complain about TARP and what the government did. It's really because they literally lack an understanding of how the system works. How interconnected all the system is.”
Jul 23, 2018 positive
Friedman: CRISPR is changing the world with frightening potential
“The biggest thing I'm looking at is CRISPR, which is literally changing the world. It scares the hell out of me because of what its potential is. That's the basic gene editing technique that came out of Stanford, MIT, and Harvard, but it's just mind-boggling w…”
Jul 23, 2018 positive
Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 negative
Friedman: Unknowable macro shocks pose the greatest financial system risk
“To me the biggest risk of the financial system is that gigantic macro unknown, and therefore it's an unknown, and we don't even know what it is, and so that is always what fools everybody, and it's that, that massive non-linear effect that takes place.”
Jul 23, 2018 positive
Friedman: Houston Oil & Gas went 10x in months on gas discovery
“I had begun to look at oil and gas stocks, and one of my big recommendations was Houston Oil and Gas, which went from 10 to a 110 in a period of maybe Four months because it was at a big, gigantic gas discovery in what we called then the state waters. State wa…”
Mar 18, 2019 bullish
Mar 18, 2019 bullish
Friedman: Opportunity Zones will attract over $1 trillion in capital
“Right now it's probably seven, eight trillion dollars, but it's growing in another two and a half trillion dollars every year, and so that over a period of time, we believe at least a trillion dollars of capital is going to flow from one area, one geography, t…”
Mar 18, 2019 negative
Friedman: The Community Reinvestment Act has largely been a failure
“The truth is, it's been a failure to a great extent, because there's so much paperwork, it's so artificial at times, that you make non-economic investments, and the money disappears, and that gets people upset, gets everyone upset.”
Mar 18, 2019 negative
Friedman: Congress and the administration display unprecedented childishness and political regression
“When I watch Congress, and when I watch the administration, I feel like I'm back, not in the seventh grade, I'm back in the first grade, and I just can't believe it, and especially when all these people were, growing up, were my heroes, and I've never seen suc…”
Mar 18, 2019 bullish
Friedman: Non-taxable allocators will invest in Opportunity Zones for higher returns
“There's no specific economic incentive. It's just they're going to get a higher return on their money. Do you want to be downtown New York, which where jobs are going to be moving out from, or do you want to be in Brooklyn or the tip of New York? Do you want t…”