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We cut our commissions by half. We were the only platform to do this, which at the time was controversial internally because we were not yet profitable, but this would have been an over $100 million…
We were presented with an opportunity to take a large war chest. I thought, look, it's not a guarantee, but we get to put aside any concerns of ever having to raise capital again and we get to just…
We are not seeing that. I think -- so, not a direct quote, but close to what I read in a transcript was they noticed a deterioration of consumer credit quality, credit performance over the last few…
I believe that is a substantial enough program that it would both raise costs to consumers broadly on all the imports they buy and harm American businesses many of whom rely on imported goods for…
These tariffs were put in place because of unfair trade practices that China was found guilty of in the 301 action, and given that China has not done anything really to address those concerns, we…
We refuse to let our companies in this strategic important burgeoning sector that are critical to creating good jobs in America and to addressing the climate crisis be put out of business by dumping…
The tariffs that we put in place against China I do believe are highly strategic; they're targeted at areas that China is investing very heavily in to the point where they've caused huge overcapacity.
For the last three or four years there have been enormous construction sites, work, infrastructure developed, transportation extended. That is going to bring about some additional activity and it is…
Their reunion could well be a rocky one with a number of other thorny topics also on the table such as the war in Ukraine, relations with China and whether Trump will revive the threats that he made…
We still have little bit, you know, issues, but I think that we will continue our dialogue and we should solve ourselves and for our development, we need cooperation from any country who offers us…
More recent is a license dispute with Qualcomm, a long time partner and customer of yours. Wouldn't it just make sense for you guys to work it out and settle and get something done so you can both…
Meanwhile, though, perhaps some of the tension around compute and AI has been whether China is going to, quote unquote beat out the United States, and that suddenly comes into a closer focus,…
If that one event turns out to affect a thousand policies and somehow they're all linked together in some way and the courts decide that way, you've written something that in no way we're getting the…
It is projected to be a huge business, my guess is at some point it might become a huge business but it might be associated with huge losses and our approach is to sort of stay away from it right now…
I have discouraged them from writing cyber insurance to the extent they need to write it so as to satisfy certain client needs, I have told them no matter how much you charge you should tell yourself…
We at Berkshire tend to be very, very careful when it comes to taking on Cyber Insurance liabilities actually for two reasons: one is it's very difficult to know what is the Quantum of losses that…
The US economy has weathered a global pandemic in its aftermath and is now back to a good place. The economy has made significant progress toward our dual mandate goals of Maximum employment and…
The tax cuts, or at least the extension of the 2017 tax proposals here, do you think that now that we have a red sweep is just a sure thing or is there some discipline there to keep some of that from…
We should be absolutely willing to regulate them and this is where we have focused the conversations both with the US government and UK and EU governments to figure out how do we collectively…
Regulation is definitely very important and we need to figure out how and what to regulate in a way that there is still room for startups and innovators to actually move fast and work on building new…
We reduced our operating leverage needs by about 300 basis points improvement such that when you see our returns on tangible, they were 70 and a half percent for the quarter, 18% for the year to date.
I think our destiny is to remain independent and continue to grow. That said, we're a public company. We're here for the shareholders, and we'll act, you know, in an appropriate way if an opportunity…
China has become like this EV epicenter but it's really hard for outside companies to penetrate there because there's so many companies that are creating cars in China that are funded by state-owned…
All these supports you are about to hear has been financed from government resources; these are not loans nor are they grants that we would have received from friendly governments or from…
The government has fulfilled its promises to you within the city time and our presence here this morning is to provide you and the nation with an update on the payments those already made and those…
Germany is now hamstrung by these sort of very stringent borrowing limits. This is something he wants to do away with the debt brake, saying that he wants to bring the economy back to life with more…
We pioneered what we call hurricane debt relief clauses, which gave us the right to suspend repayment of debt in the event we have a natural disaster so that we have immediate liquidity to address…
We will do a couple of things to help you do that and fulfill that aspiration: one is build enough homes in the right places, but then we'll reintroduce a version of Help to Buy and we'll abolish…
Given progress toward our inflation goal and the cooling of labor market conditions, last week, my Federal Open Market Committee colleagues and I took another step in reducing the degree of policy…
If you remove semiconductor manufacturing or foundry for a moment and just step back and say, is it healthy for any industry to have a one dominant supplier and then add on top of that a dominant…