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So today, we're taking historic action to bring down the price of energy and the cost of living for all Americans with the power of clean, beautiful coal. If you look at China, if you look at so many…
I don't think reading widely is as good for you as is conventionally considered. I think reading specific things with intention and depth has huge benefits. This is a much slower process where you…
I think people are underestimating when you think about AI you're just like thinking about the intelligence of an individual copy of model and I think this leads people to ignore the unique…
Ken Rogoff who is a former chief economist at the IMF and he was on my podcast and he said this was actually the result of interventions the Japanese government made at the behest of US pressure,…
If we keep passing through these benchmarks while at the same time not unlocking the economic value that is implied by AGI, which at the minimum should be able to do white collar work, which is worth…
I think the more important reason is that it's genuinely hard to get humanlike labor out of these models. And I've experienced this myself by trying to build these little LLM workflows for my…
I think Bernanke and Yellen, that linkup together, maybe as I said in the beginning of this thing, they are responsible for why we had a... we may be complaining about the shallow recovery, but we…
The biggest risk of Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis is that our counterparties might not be good for it. It's not you, we knew where we were and fine, we were worried about our…
The business as it exists today of unsecured lending to individuals is mostly accomplished through credit card balances. And I think as you know, most people get charged interest of 17, 18, 19% or…
We are traditionally an institutional wholesale business. We do with big companies, the biggest institutions, governments, richest people. And one of the things that we started to do... is…
I don't use that platform for Lloyd Blankfein's personal point of view because I know I'm interesting to people because my role at Goldman now. I communicate and I've done it before by press release.…
I told him if you're serving yourself or your boss or me as the CEO of the company tell me I don't have a problem with that zero problem except you cannot work here. You can be promoted to being a…
The most important decision we make as leaders is who do we put in positions of leadership. So I don't want to be the one to throw the first stone at the partners who are serving Purdue because I…
The role of the CEO has changed dramatically in the last several years. So the mission has changed it's no longer purely maximizing shareholder value it's maximizing value for all of the stakeholders.
I was very clear with our investors our purpose as a company is not to make money it's an outcome of great work building the right team developing some great customers and doing great things for them…
Contrary to what Milton Friedman wanted us to believe, it's important for business to be a force for good in the world. And my conviction with many years in business... is that business can do well…
I think the main thing I worry about is the AI playing us off each other rather than us playing the AIs off off each other. More so like the way that the East India Company was able to play different…
I think it's less like the nuclear bomb where there's a self-contained technology that is so obviously um relevant to specifically this like offensive capability and you can say like there's nuclear…
I think the big bottleneck to growth has been that human population can only increase at this slow clip. And in fact, you know, one of the reasons that growth has slowed since the 70s is that in…
The ultimate definition is can do almost any job say like 98% of jobs at least as well fast uh cheaply as a human. I think the more um the definition that's often useful for near-term debates is can…
Europe is in serious trouble. They've been invaded by a force of illegal aliens like nobody's ever seen before. Illegal aliens are pouring into Europe. Nobody has ever and nobody's doing anything to…
It's climate change because if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell happens, there's climate change. It's the greatest conj job ever perpetrated on the world in my opinion. Climate change, no…
We have to stop the war in Gaza immediately. We have to stop it. We have to get it done. We have to negotiate immediately. Have to negotiate peace. We got to get the hostages back. We want all 20…
What is the purpose of the United Nations? The UN has such tremendous potential. I've always said it. It has such tremendous, tremendous potential, but it's not even coming close to living up to that…
We are actually more tied to the short end of the curve. You know, 70% of our loan book and our balance sheet is tied to one either overnight or 30-day rates. So we actually would look for the short…
We get everything from the consumers and the homeowners who they're drilling on their land, leasing their land. You get the workers coming into it. I call it if you think of the Alaska pipeline, the…
We as I said have been growing through taking share in a year where I would say the tone of our consumer and our business clients has been cautious all year. The uncertainty in the environment, a…
We see it evenly across our markets but what I would tell you really as the driver is we're taking market share. We have a very distinctive business model where we're going in targeted client…
it is not about having power for its own sake it's about how power can be used to shape the future of the country that we need for the next generation as john howard said to us so many times david…
the fundamental question is toward what are we striving to grow it is to build a better society not only of prosperity and economic security and individual freedoms but also the inherent value and…