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We've been consistent in our view that a strong well- capitalized banking system in the US is essential and that strength has been clearly demonstrated across multiple stress periods. At the same…

David Solomon ·Chairman & CEO GS ·Jun 2026

In the first quarter, we delivered a very strong performance generating net revenues of 17.2 $2 billion, net earnings of $5.6 billion, and earnings per share of $1755. All three of which were the…

David Solomon ·Chairman & CEO GS ·Jun 2026

I think this is kind of one of the few things that is truly sort of a question or set of questions of kind of civilizational importance. And so I guess my goal in talking about them and thinking…

Patrick Collison ·CEO ·Oct 2019

I'm very optimistic about sort of individual human agency and I'm very optimistic about sort of the width of the right tail and I'm very optimistic about the sort of transmissibility of new knowledge…

Patrick Collison ·CEO ·Oct 2019

I think it just as we think as people, as we think as a civilization, you know, what's the world's going to look like in a hundred years and a thousand years, right? I think, you know, arguably the…

Patrick Collison ·CEO ·Oct 2019

We describe Stripe's mission as in trying to increase the GDP of the internet. The sort of core idea is we do want to sort of take a broad view of the internet economy, of technological progress, and…

Patrick Collison ·CEO ·Oct 2019

high interest rates are are hard for businesses they're hard for people they're the thing that they're the tool that we have um to to use to bring inflation down and our job at this time when high…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Mar 2024

I think there are two things going on one is a longer term housing shortage and the other is the pandemic effects and the associated higher interest rates which are things that will pass through when…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Mar 2024

we do try to estimate population and we try to estimate the effective immigration legal or illegal on the size of the workforce and on GDP if you look at the the Congressional budget office has as…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Mar 2024

immigration policy very important very much under discussion and it's none of our business we don't set immigration policy and we don't comment on it

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Mar 2024

the fact of the matter is that so often if in fact 60 I actually listened to what you said which was remarkable uh the fact that 60% of Americans today can't afford a $1,000 emergency I can't imagine…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Mar 2024

At Apple, creating the best products in the world to deliver experiences that enrich people's lives has always been our North Star. It's been the honor of a lifetime to help advance that mission with…

Timothy Cook ·Chief Executive Officer AAPL ·Jun 2026

On a personal note, some of the greatest highlights of my time as CEO have been events like this. Sharing powerful new tools with all of you and then seeing what you create with them has been a…

Timothy Cook ·Chief Executive Officer AAPL ·Jun 2026

Today we're looking forward to sharing some exciting announcements including our latest advancements in Apple Intelligence and Siri.

Timothy Cook ·Chief Executive Officer AAPL ·Jun 2026

At Apple, we've always believed that technology should be personal, powerful, and easy to use. The tight integration of our hardware and our software unlocks the full potential of each of our…

Timothy Cook ·Chief Executive Officer AAPL ·Jun 2026

The energy around Apple platforms has never been stronger. Developers are building more apps than ever with well over 1,000 submissions to the App Store every hour.

Timothy Cook ·Chief Executive Officer AAPL ·Jun 2026

20% is not a destination, it is only a milestone on our journey toward peer-leading margins across both segments.

Lorenzo Simonelli ·Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer BKR ·Jun 2025

We continue to evaluate our 2025 plans for the company and we will communicate guidance in January. Based on the current macro and geopolitical environment, we expect next year's global upstream…

Lorenzo Simonelli ·Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer BKR ·Jun 2025

Baker Hughes is becoming less cyclical and is demonstrating the capability to generate more durable earnings and free cash flow across cycles given our balanced portfolio, significant reoccurring IET…

Lorenzo Simonelli ·Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer BKR ·Jun 2025

In our view natural gas is a clear winner. It is abundant, low cost, and has lower emissions. This is the age of gas. By 2040 we expect natural gas demand to grow by almost 20% and global LNG demand…

Lorenzo Simonelli ·Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer BKR ·Jun 2025

We do have concerns with some of the practices that China has engaged in with respect to trade and investment, whether it's forced technology transfer, massive subsidies to industries that really…

Janet Yellen ·United States Secretary of the Treasury ·May 2023

The banks that failed tended to have substantial losses marked to market losses on their hold to maturity portfolios. So although their regulatory capital wasn't impaired, their tangibles equity was…

Janet Yellen ·United States Secretary of the Treasury ·May 2023

Look. If Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling, we face economic and financial catastrophe one way or the other. And that's why our focus is on making sure that Congress does raise the debt ceiling.

Janet Yellen ·United States Secretary of the Treasury ·May 2023

With global markets and American households and businesses need to see is that we have a Congress that's committed to paying the bills that we've incurred as a consequence of our legislation that…

Janet Yellen ·United States Secretary of the Treasury ·May 2023

All I can say is that there is no satisfactory solution for the United States. A solution will be good for the economy and financial markets other than Congress acting to raise the debt ceiling…

Janet Yellen ·United States Secretary of the Treasury ·May 2023

France has been uh exporting electricity power. Now not just exporting continue to export electricity power, we can make convert electricity as a raw material into more high valued intelligence. So…

Masayoshi Son ·Founder, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer SFTBY ·Jun 2026

I think people discuss whether AI is good, robotics by AI is good or bad for humanity. I said every time civilization comes the society lifestyle change the job change but if you avoid the speed and…

Masayoshi Son ·Founder, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer SFTBY ·Jun 2026

Soft bank do not put all of the money we are aggregating we do the project financing because we have hyperscala as our customer. So even though the size of the investment is big, it's a growing…

Masayoshi Son ·Founder, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer SFTBY ·Jun 2026

In two months we actually uh identify committed and uh make a specific site uh already secured for 3 gawatt and then we are now evaluating additional 3 gaw. So we are going to commit to deliver 5…

Masayoshi Son ·Founder, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer SFTBY ·Jun 2026

I said okay if you have power we can make a AI data center. And uh he asked me masa are you quick. I said I am quick because he asked me uh because there's a event in uh June 1st. Choose France…

Masayoshi Son ·Founder, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer SFTBY ·Jun 2026