The Minutes of Brad Gerstner on budget https://minutesof.com/brad-gerstner/on/budget/ Everything Brad Gerstner has said on budget: 4 verbatim quotes between November 2024 and June 2025, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:21:51 +0000 Gerstner says Invest America costs $3.7 billion annually, equivalent to one Patriot missile battery. https://minutesof.com/q/8ac2b20a-63f5-4b8c-9ffc-9853e62fb32e/ https://minutesof.com/q/8ac2b20a-63f5-4b8c-9ffc-9853e62fb32e/ “So the total cost of this, 3,700,000 kids born a year, a thousand bucks each kid, $3,700,000,000. Just to contextualize that, that's about the cost of a single Patriot missile battery.” — Bloomberg Live Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:44:40 +0000 budget Gerstner argues balancing the budget by 2029 requires reducing government spending 3% annually from $7T to $6T https://minutesof.com/q/366a2470-1dc7-4f61-9e92-d0f6de65efeb/ https://minutesof.com/q/366a2470-1dc7-4f61-9e92-d0f6de65efeb/ “Now you get there by simply reducing the size of government by about 3% a year for the next four years. Again, just still going from 5,000,000,000,000 in 2019 to 6,000,000,000,000 in 2029.” — BG2 Pod Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:11:58 +0000 budget Gerstner calculates that 4.9% revenue growth would produce a $450B surplus by 2029. https://minutesof.com/q/f1d8458c-31f7-430e-b03c-1ddefce263ce/ https://minutesof.com/q/f1d8458c-31f7-430e-b03c-1ddefce263ce/ “If we grew revenues at the same rate that we have for the last twenty years, right, starting next year, which is 4.9% per year CAGR for twenty years, we would end up with a $450,000,000,000 surplus in 2029.” — BG2 Pod Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:11:58 +0000 budget Gerstner argues federal budget can balance in four years with modest 5-5-2% spending cuts and 3-4% revenue gro https://minutesof.com/q/3ea3a46a-13b4-47da-a103-1700b0372bf3/ https://minutesof.com/q/3ea3a46a-13b4-47da-a103-1700b0372bf3/ “So all that does is get you back to trend line from 2019 As though we increased spending 3% a year from 2019, the budget balances.” — BG2 Pod Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:09:14 +0000 budget