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We need to achieve among others predominance in chemistry and in creation of new materials. That means that we need to offer competitive solutions and products in terms of price and quality but they…

Vladimir Putin ·Kremlin Russia ·Feb 2025

Major economies are competing for access to minerals, new technologies, and global trade, and you know exactly what this means for everybody else. Smaller countries, be they in Europe or the…

Ursula Von der leyen ·President of the European Commission ·Feb 2025

He highlighted the growing importance of the continent in global economic, political, and environmental discussions. He also emphasized the need for African voices to be heard on critical global…

Cyril Ramaphosa ·President ·Feb 2025

South African president Sid Raposa called for multilateralism and international law in solving world crises as G20 foreign ministers met amid arising tensions over various conflicts and trade…

Cyril Ramaphosa ·President ·Feb 2025

I remember one year I decided to ask the senior investment bankers what they should get paid, and you know, I thought it might be a terrible idea because at the end of the year you have all these…

Jamie Dimon ·Chairman & Chief Executive Officer JPM ·Feb 2025

I have a lot of respect for India. I have a lot of respect for the Prime Minister. He just left, as you know, two days ago, but we're giving $21 million for voter turnout. It's voter turnout in…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2025

Why are we giving $21 million to India? They got a lot of money, they're one of the highest taxing countries in the world. In terms of us, we can hardly get in there because their tariffs are so high.

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2025

We have a thing called reciprocal tariffs. If they charge us, we charge them. This is opening up. We just signed the bill and we're going to take in billions and billions of dollars and we're making…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2025

The last administration tried to reduce all of American history to a single year, 1619, but under our administration we honor the indispensable role black Americans have always played in the immortal…

Donald Trump ·45th and 47th U.S. President ·Feb 2025

We also need to get token classification or market structure, some people call it, which is essentially just clarifying which of these crypto assets are commodity securities, payment tokens, artwork…

Brian Armstrong ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer COIN ·Feb 2025

What we really need to do in the United States to get regulatory clarity is to have Congress pass legislation. And that's going to have a couple of key components to it. There's already some…

Brian Armstrong ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer COIN ·Feb 2025

This case was bogus. And we were right on the facts. If we hadn't stood up for our customers' rights and actually pushed back against this, it could have been the end of the crypto industry in…

Brian Armstrong ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer COIN ·Feb 2025

This is a huge day for us and also for the 50 million Americans who hold crypto. The whole crypto industry and the world. I think it's a really important signal that the small group of activists in…

Brian Armstrong ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer COIN ·Feb 2025

I am ready to go with him to the front line, I will go with him, let him talk with soldiers there if the soldiers are ready to agree to these conditions to go home and give everything to the Russians…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy ·President of Ukraine ·Feb 2025

Unfortunately, President Trump, with great respect for him as a leader of the people, which we respect very much, the American people who constantly support us, unfortunately lives in this…

Volodymyr Zelenskyy ·President of Ukraine ·Feb 2025

In the future, I think more and more these things are going to be tokenized. Now, we also need to make sure people are following the law and not doing pump and dump schemes or insider trading, and…

Brian Armstrong ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer COIN ·Feb 2025

I am excited about prediction markets. And I think the new CFTC chair, Brian Quintenz, is certainly very thoughtful on this topic. And he's going to have to figure out how to create a trusted…

Brian Armstrong ·Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer COIN ·Feb 2025

Dodd Frank took a lot of the consumer compliance jurisdiction away from the other banking agencies and gave it to a newly created agency, the CFPB. We retained a residual amount of that as we just…

Jerome Powell ·Chair ·Feb 2025

Iran is not really a threat to us; it's a threat to their people, but they are a threat to Israel, a threat to every country in the region, and a threat beyond our region because they're the greatest…

Benjamin Netanyahu ·Prime Minister ·Feb 2025

In the coming budget I have already instructed the Minister of Finance to introduce youth Innovation grants that will enable you to access financing because you want to create Innovative Enterprises…

Lazarus Chakwera ·President ·Feb 2025

The interest on the national debt now exceeds the entire defense department budget, a trillion a year in interest just to carry the money that we owe is a trillion a year that is unbelievable and…

Elon Musk ·Co-Founder, Technoking of Tesla, Chief Executive Officer & Director TSLA ·Feb 2025

The most surprising thing is the scale of the expenditures and actually how easy it is to, with just caring and competence where it was absent before, you can actually save billions of dollars…

Elon Musk ·Co-Founder, Technoking of Tesla, Chief Executive Officer & Director TSLA ·Feb 2025

The Biden administration was, I mean, there was suing SpaceX for not hiring asylum seekers. And we're like, but it's actually illegal for us to hire asylum seekers because we're rocket technology is…

Elon Musk ·Co-Founder, Technoking of Tesla, Chief Executive Officer & Director TSLA ·Feb 2025

The demand for reparations is not about charity or financial aid; it is a call for justice. It seeks to restore the dignity of millions and heal the deepest causes of poverty, inequality, and…

Abiy Ahmed ·Prime Minister ·Feb 2025

On energy, Albo described Dutton's nuclear plan as a fantasy and offered up this explanation as to why Renewables are the way forward: 'If people walk into this studio and turn on the lights, flick…

Anthony Albanese ·Prime Minister ·Feb 2025

Indigenous Australians had asked for a referendum now that wasn't out of convenience that was out of conviction. So we did that and it didn't work out. I accept that and we accept the result but that…

Anthony Albanese ·Prime Minister ·Feb 2025

In addition to immigration reforms, the two candidates agreed on changes to the German social subsidy system. They said that measures must be taken to ensure that people unwilling to work should not…

Olaf Scholz ·Chancellor ·Feb 2025

Perpetrators must be severely punished. If they have committed offenses and do not have German citizenship, then they must certainly expect that we will return them to another country, their country…

Olaf Scholz ·Chancellor ·Feb 2025

As long as we do not openly and explicitly reject the idea that one human being can own another human being, we run the risk that that idea may somehow take root again and be allowed to flourish and…

Dickon Mitchell ·Prime Minister ·Feb 2025

I think in general we will need our regulators to be pretty agile in making regulation that can encourage the most beneficial things for the broadest number of people to get to the market as quickly…

Kevin Scott ·Executive Vice President of AI & Chief Technology Officer MSFT ·Feb 2025