Matein Khalid analyzes incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's '3-3-3' economic plan on The Neon Show.
Opinion
Khalid: US Government Cannot Cut Medicare, Social Security, or Defense
“No matter what Elon Musk or anybody else says you simply cannot cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security defense spending or thing.”
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Khalid: Biden White House Approved the Gautam Adani Indictment
“Obviously, the SEC and the Justice Department do not accuse a very prominent businessman. I mean, let's face it, he's no ordinary businessman, right? On such a public forum to bring a, you know, a criminal indictment, right? Without having consultations with t…”
Opinion
Khalid: Hamas Is No Longer a Military Threat to Israel
“Hamas' military capacity, and therefore its capacity to pose any kind of a military threat to Israel from Gaza, other than random acts of terror, right, has, It has been done at a horrific cost, of course, at a horrific human cost. But Hamas is no longer a thr…”
Prediction Held up
Khalid: India Will Favor Musk's Starlink Over Domestic Telecoms
“If you give me a sort of a, if I was a betting man, I'd bet that they will probably tilt towards Elon, right?”
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Khalid: Trump Tariffs Could Trigger Pandemic-Level Supply Chain Disruption
“Trump's threats of tariffs are now going to force a supply chain. I mean, it's going to be a supply chain disruption that Could echo, ah, what we saw in 2020 because of the pandemic, right?”
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2029
Khalid: Donald Trump Will Not Break Up Big Tech Monopolies
“I don't think that they are, Trump is in the business of breaking up the big tech monopolies.”