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Friedman estimates Opportunity Zones will increase US GDP by 0.4%
“We estimate it'll increase GDP by four-tenths of percent.”
Friedman: Opportunity Zones Will Be a Complete Failure Without Job Creation
“The fact is, which people don't realize, 70% of this is aimed at business. If this doesn't create jobs, Jobs, jobs, jobs. Then this is going to be a complete failure. You're going to have stranded real estate.”
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…”