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A key part of it is to create sort of like a bubble where we test every single person going on board the guests and the crew and protect them so that their likelihood of entering with Corona virus is…

Richard Fain ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer RCL ·Sep 2020

I think this is an unusual panel... they did it in a transparent way so three or months or four months ago we announced the panel we talked about who was on it we talked about how it would operate we…

Richard Fain ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer RCL ·Sep 2020

Congresswoman is slanderous. She has nothing but but the unsubstantiated opinions, and I will not stand for that. There is nothing corrupt. We we move at the highest levels and just because she…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

I'M HOLDING THAT IN ABEYANCE. IT DEPENDS ON CHINA. IT IS A VERY GOOD NEGOTIATING CHIP FOR US, FRANKLY. IT'S A LOT OF WEAPONS. IT'S $12 BILLION.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·May 2026

I'M NOT LOOKING TO HAVE SOMEBODY GO INDEPENDENT AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO TRAVEL 9,500 MILES TO FIGHT A WAR. I'M NOT LOOKING FOR THAT. I WANT THEM TO COOL DOWN. I WANT CHINA TO COOL DOWN.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·May 2026

I PUT 100 PERCENT TARIFF ON CHINESE CARS BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT THEM COMING INTO THE COUNTRY. ONLY BECAUSE THEY SWAMP YOU. THEY WILL DESTROY YOUR AUTO INDUSTRY. THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING IN EUROPE NOW…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·May 2026

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE EVERYBODY MAKING CHIPS IN TAIWAN COME INTO AMERICA. TO BE HONEST WITH YOU I THINK IT'S THE GREATEST THING CAN YOU DO. IT'S A HEATED SITUATION. THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. AS…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·May 2026

I DON'T THINK ABOUT AMERICANS' FINANCIAL SITUATION. I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT ANYBODY. I THINK ABOUT ONE THING. WE CANNOT LET IRAN HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON THAT'S ALL.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·May 2026

Congressman, I I would say the economy is very strong. We are experiencing a short-term elevation in prices due to the Iran conflict. That will come down. That what that the other side doesn't want…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

I came out from behind my very comfortable desk and am here today because I was concerned about that trajectory and I do believe it is it is possible to get back to the historical level 3% deficit to…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Congress, let's look at a little bit of history. And this is MIT's numbers, not my numbers. MIT believes that almost 50% of the inflation we saw during the Biden era was due to the size of the…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

Since President Trump came into office, the US Treasury market has been the best performing developed market. But that is not assured. It is assured that we will have the Treasury will have a regular…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jun 2026

If you stack rank the things that are worrying today, I'd say getting inflation back to target, getting Americans the relief they deserve that we've been working on for quite a while. That's my…

Mary Daly ·President ·Jun 2026

I was one of the people who policymakers who were a little worried about the labor market at the end of last year was very supportive of the cuts that we took to to stabilize conditions there. So…

Mary Daly ·President ·Jun 2026

We don't know how the economy is going to play out. We have, as we've been talking about this tremendous possibility with AI, but we have the same time, the war in Iran that is, um, with an uncertain…

Mary Daly ·President ·Jun 2026

I don't think that we should think oh there's financial stability concerned just because the market's going up. It could go up or down as it has in the past. But a financial stability issue would…

Mary Daly ·President ·Jun 2026

We haven't seen the productivity gains yet. You know, you're being very clear on that. As you remember, I asked you over and over again for an hour, please show me the productivity gains. But in the…

Mary Daly ·President ·Jun 2026

If you stack rank the things that are worrying today, I'd say getting inflation back to target, getting Americans the relief they deserve that we've been working on for quite a while. That's my…

Mary Daly ·President ·Jun 2026

I was one of the people who policymakers who were a little worried about the labor market at the end of last year was very supportive of the cuts that we took to to stabilize conditions there. So…

Mary Daly ·President ·Jun 2026

Everybody wants to resolve the uncertainty today, but I think that's a mistake because it will it will close off our mind about what we really have to look at the inflation risk possibility, but also…

Mary Daly ·President ·Jun 2026

We don't know how the economy is going to play out. We have, as we've been talking about this tremendous possibility with AI, but we have the same time, the war in Iran that is, um, with an uncertain…

Mary Daly ·President ·Jun 2026

immediately upon signing the memorandum of understanding, the Hormuz Strait will open. And it'll open up quickly, and we've already had our minesweepers there. You know, we're sweeping, as you…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

This is the exact opposite. This is no path to a nuclear weapon. That was a absolute path to a nuclear weapon that you couldn't have done anything about. This is the exact opposite. They gave…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

And we're going to have to stop them from having a nuclear weapon. That's what we've done. And they've agreed to that. By the way, they I mean, if they sign the agreement, they will have agreed to we…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

Everyone's 401ks are the highest they've ever been. Everybody's making a lot of money. Costs are coming down. You know, we took over the highest costs and the highest inflation in the history of our…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

We had the strongest stock market in history, and I said we have no choice, we have to do it. I knew it would affect it, but I was very happily surprised when I saw that today we hit another stock…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jun 2026

I still think that because I think we're going to get through there's a lot of noise, a lot of dust in the air, but at the at the fundamentally coming into April, we had unemployment right around 4%…

Austan Goolsbee ·President ·Apr 2025

I'm more worried about tariffs causing uncertainty, which becomes self-fulfilling with corporations, and and that we really get a a possibility of a slowdown. I don't know about a recession. And then…

Austan Goolsbee ·President ·Apr 2025

I know the secretary I agree with the secretary of the treasury when he said Fed independence is a jewel box that we don't want to mess with. All economists I've been at the Fed for a little over two…

Austan Goolsbee ·President ·Apr 2025

Look, everything's always on the table. As I say, it's a huge table, but the Fed is supposed to be the steady hand here. What we what we need to do is look through the get the through line and and…

Austan Goolsbee ·President ·Apr 2025