The Minutes of Brad Gerstner on austerity https://minutesof.com/brad-gerstner/on/austerity/ Everything Brad Gerstner has said on austerity: 2 verbatim quotes from March 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it came from. en Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:09:03 +0000 Gerstner frames $500 billion tariffs plus $1 trillion Doge spending cuts as $1.5 trillion total government aus https://minutesof.com/q/3c4b605f-3736-40fd-88e2-a2d1ef9b27d2/ https://minutesof.com/q/3c4b605f-3736-40fd-88e2-a2d1ef9b27d2/ “At the same time, Elon and members of the House and Senate are talking about cutting a trillion dollars of government spend. So one way to think about this is 1,500,000,000,000 of government austerity.” — Upfront Ventures Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:33:08 +0000 austerity Gerstner argues successful government austerity means short-term pain for markets by withdrawing liquidity fro https://minutesof.com/q/7b7386e0-c4be-4480-ae1b-0d9f3f3a9d16/ https://minutesof.com/q/7b7386e0-c4be-4480-ae1b-0d9f3f3a9d16/ “I think ironically, what people are not yet bracing for is that the success of austerity, the success of balancing the budget, the success of Doge, likely means short term pain for markets.” — Upfront Ventures Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:33:08 +0000 austerity