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ICE is incredible people they help all of you alive with some of the most vicious characters you meet anywhere in the world no matter where you go you're not going to find worse than the ms-13 gangs…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2019

Everybody said you need the wall if you don't have the whoa nothing's going to work they turn down that suggestion you heard that they turned it down they said we don't want to give that suggestion…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2019

Mexico has had the worst year that ever had almost 40,000 killings in Mexico this year one of the most unsafe places unfortunately we need a wall and one of the other things are nice to have but…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2019

Our proposal provides a three-year extension of temporary protected status or TPS this means that 300,000 immigrants whose protective status is facing expiration will now have three more years of so…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jan 2019

If we build a powerful and fully designed see-through steel barrier on our southern border the crime rate and drug problem in our country would be quickly and greatly reduced some say it could be cut…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jan 2019

The radical left can never control our borders I will never let it happen walls are not immoral in fact they are the opposite of immoral because they will save many lives and stop drugs from pouring…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jan 2019

We believe in a safe and lawful system of immigration one that upholds our laws our traditions and our most cherished values unfortunately our immigration system has been badly broken for a very long…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Jan 2019

The president is looking at Greenland as a strategic asset for the United States. We are not going to outsource our hemispheric security to anyone else.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Feb 2026

I spoke to President Trump and evidently there are a lot of inbounds and I think everyone should take the president at his word.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Feb 2026

America first does not mean America alone and I think President Trump will be talking about this is what American leadership in the world looks like. The US will be hosting the G20 next year and I…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Feb 2026

The president is looking at Greenland as a strategic asset for the United States. We are not going to outsource our hemispheric security to anyone else.

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jan 2026

America first does not mean America alone. And I think President Trump will be talking about this is what American leadership in the world looks like. Uh the US will be hosting the G20 next year. And…

Scott Bessent ·Treasury Secretary ·Jan 2026

As the company moves into Horizon 2, these portfolio actions are positioning Baker Hughes to evolve into a stronger, more industrialized energy solutions company. This evolution is underpinned by an…

Lorenzo Simonelli ·Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer BKR ·May 2026

We believe that global power demand is entering a multi-year cycle. By 2040, global demand is expected to double to approximately 60,000 terawatt hours. This increase implies a compounded annual…

Lorenzo Simonelli ·Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer BKR ·May 2026

We now expect to book approximately $3 billion of data center-related orders between 2025 and 2027.

Lorenzo Simonelli ·Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer BKR ·May 2026

We believe further reduction in idle OPEC+ supply, alongside more constructive oil supply and demand balances, is required before a broader inflection in oil field services activity emerges. That…

Lorenzo Simonelli ·Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer BKR ·May 2026

Industry estimates suggest that AI infrastructure spending totaled more than $500 billion in 2025 and is expected to approach a trillion dollars annually in the late 2020s. Resilient power supply has…

Lorenzo Simonelli ·Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer BKR ·May 2026

We'll make better policy, we'll keep inflation lower if we just focus on doing our job and stay out of politics, stay out of elections, don't try to favor or to hurt any political party, any…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Feb 2025

I think bank accounts overall across the economy are safe, yes. We've still got deposit insurance at the FDIC and the banking system is well capitalized and safe.

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Feb 2025

The evidence is, my own view and there are many different views on this, but is that the neutral rate will have risen meaningfully, very hard to be precise about it, from what it was, was clearly…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Feb 2025

The US federal budget is on an unsustainable path. It's not that the level of spending or the level of the debt itself is unsustainable, it's that the path is unsustainable and ultimately the level…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Feb 2025

I think the standard case for free trade and all that logically still makes sense. It didn't work that well when we have one very large country that doesn't really play by the rules and in any case…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Feb 2025

We do see payment stable coins as a form of money and in all advanced economies the ultimate source of credibility in money is the central bank and we believe that it would be appropriate to have a…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Jun 2023

We remain committed to bringing inflation back down to our two percent goal and to keeping longer-term inflation expectations well anchored. Reducing inflation is likely to require a period of…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Jun 2023

Nearly all FOMC participants expect that it will be appropriate to raise interest rates somewhat further by the end of the year. But at last week's meeting, considering how far and how fast we've…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Jun 2023

In light of how far we have come in tightening policy, the uncertain lags with which monetary policy affects the economy, and potential headwinds from credit tightening, the FOMC decided last week to…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Jun 2023

We at the Fed remain squarely focused on our dual mandate to promote maximum employment and stable prices for the American people. My colleagues and I understand the hardship that high inflation is…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Jun 2023

I think one of the reasons why the private equity firms have been slower to monetize is the economic incentives that are set up give them the optionality to wait and we had a dynamic where values and…

David Solomon ·Chairman & CEO GS ·Jun 2026

I am hugely forward-leaning on the power of this technology to accelerate growth and efficiency in Goldman Sachs and allow us to more aggressively invest in growth in areas of our business where for…

David Solomon ·Chairman & CEO GS ·Jun 2026

I know the media headlines have driven, you know, an enormous amount of negative sentiment around private credit. You know, my own view is it's important to really distinguish between different…

David Solomon ·Chairman & CEO GS ·Jun 2026