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Gary Cohn

Executive Vice Chairman, Ibm

Search every verified Gary Cohn interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Gary Cohn, vice chairman of IBM, has recently commented on consumer sentiment, AI regulation, and Federal Reserve policy. In a September 2026 interview on "Face the Nation," Cohn said that "consumer sentiment has turned quite negative" in the U.S., attributing this to rising gas prices, concerns about AI, and high costs, while noting that headline economic indicators such as GDP and employment remain strong. He also discussed the Federal Reserve's decision to hike rates, saying he was not surprised and describing Chair Kevin Warsh as "reverting the Fed to the historic norms" after a period of greater transparency that he said made markets "addicted to knowing what the Fed was going to do." In a separate interview with Yahoo Finance, Cohn said he is not using Meta's Muse AI agent, stating, "I'm not comfortable giving up my personal data." He expressed support for AI as a productivity boom with "no real losers" but argued that regulators should focus on outcomes and products rather than the technology itself, warning against a patchwork of state-level regulations. He also discussed market instability, including U.S.-Japan efforts to shore up the yen, and said that consumer spending could continue to rise if oil prices decline.

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“The number one issue facing the United States economy today is the price of energy. Whether it's gasoline, which is the worst inflation you can have because everyone holds that handle down on the pump and they watch those numbers full and they know where the numbers stop last week or yesterday depending when they filled up their gas. And when they go up, you know, 3 or 4 or 5% this week, people feel that and it comes”

“I think the government has a role in all of our lives, and we shouldn't deny that. But the first and most important thing is that we don't get 50 states with 50 sets of different regulations. That'd be disaster. I hope not. But look, we seem to be evolving down a path where every state's looking at AI, looking at data centers through their own lens, not looking at through a global lens where we're in a global competi”

“I think the government has a role in all of our lives, and we shouldn't deny that. But the first and most important thing is that we don't get 50 states with 50 sets of different regulations. That would be disaster. We seem to be evolving down a path where every state's looking at AI, looking at data centers through their own lens, not looking at through a global lens where we're in a global competition. We're clearl”

“We've got a myriad of factors. You know, we've got the war going on. We've got the price of oil going on. We've got the major capex AI investment going on. And the question is, you've taken some of the largest companies in America that historically have owned intellectual property and were massive free cash flow generators and then they recirculated that cash into the market either by buying assets, buying other thin”

“Kevin is reverting the Fed to the historic norms of what the Fed did. We unfortunately as newscasters or as market makers or as traders, we got spoiled from the '08 period on. From '08 period on, the Fed has been an open box. They've been completely transparent. They have not done anything that you wouldn't know they would do hours or weeks or months before they did it. And the market became addicted to knowing what ”

“If you own assets today, your assets probably appreciate whether it's a house, it's a car, it's a investable asset. Most of these underlying assets are going up in value versus the other side of the K which is a large predominance of our country who's really suffering and really having a difficult time as their input cost meaning their food cost their energy cost their insurance cost their price of cars price of used”

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