The Minutes of Brad Gerstner on policy https://minutesof.com/brad-gerstner/on/policy/ Everything Brad Gerstner has said on policy: 13 verbatim quotes between April 2021 and August 2026, each with a timestamp and a link to the recording it… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:21:49 +0000 Gerstner cites research showing children with savings have better educational, economic, and incarceration out https://minutesof.com/q/78ee0809-37d8-4200-be30-792d9fa5af84/ https://minutesof.com/q/78ee0809-37d8-4200-be30-792d9fa5af84/ “And we know when kids have savings, when they have investment, they're more likely to graduate from high school and college. They're more likely to buy a home.” — CNBC Television Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:39:39 +0000 policy Gerstner announces Invest America accounts launching July 4th with automatic $1,000 for every newborn. https://minutesof.com/q/6932a0fe-80ca-401b-831a-19c1f21ad742/ https://minutesof.com/q/6932a0fe-80ca-401b-831a-19c1f21ad742/ “Starting in, on July 4, just sixty days from today, every child forevermore born in America will start off with an investment account at birth, automatic, stapled to their Social Security with a thousand dollars in the S and P 500.” — Altimeter Capital Tue, 05 May 2026 22:10:35 +0000 policy The president said last week, twenty years from now, there will be a 100,000,000 kids and families that have 3 https://minutesof.com/q/1e1b84ab-705a-4b5f-8136-c3d8c6ff6f12/ https://minutesof.com/q/1e1b84ab-705a-4b5f-8136-c3d8c6ff6f12/ “The president said last week, twenty years from now, there will be a 100,000,000 kids and families that have 3 to 4,000,000,000,000 in wealth that would have otherwise had zero because they start off with a thousand dollars, and we add money to those accounts.” — Altimeter Capital Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:40:23 +0000 policy Gerstner proposes giving every newborn a $1,000 S&P 500 account with corporate contributions from major compan https://minutesof.com/q/75a83da6-3773-4656-9be3-b8d3ac317a54/ https://minutesof.com/q/75a83da6-3773-4656-9be3-b8d3ac317a54/ “You start every child at birth, 3,700,000 kids with $1,000 investment account in the S and P 500. It's a four zero one ks from birth.” — Khosla Ventures Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:51:48 +0000 policy Gerstner says 70% of Americans lack compounding accounts and proposes $1,000 at birth in private federal accou https://minutesof.com/q/bcaf514e-ed3b-4546-959b-1f6782a433ce/ https://minutesof.com/q/bcaf514e-ed3b-4546-959b-1f6782a433ce/ “We need to get them into the game. So it's a thousand dollars at birth, seeded by the, the federal government, but private accounts.” — CNBC Television Mon, 05 May 2025 18:29:26 +0000 policy Gerstner suggests Trump believes America peaked during 1880s high-tariff era before income tax replaced tariff https://minutesof.com/q/a41d2bdb-ec56-4c06-8ec4-a0d42f857dd7/ https://minutesof.com/q/a41d2bdb-ec56-4c06-8ec4-a0d42f857dd7/ “So prior to 1910, which is when we got the income tax, right, the vast majority,” — BG2 Pod Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:13:28 +0000 policy Gerstner argues sovereign wealth fund must clear 5% hurdle rate given $40 trillion debt at 5% cost. https://minutesof.com/q/ab9b1770-cf9b-4c61-970a-1277f16b5bd0/ https://minutesof.com/q/ab9b1770-cf9b-4c61-970a-1277f16b5bd0/ “So we're a debtor nation, and we're paying 5% on all that debt. So the hurdle rate to our return that is needed on the sovereign wealth fund, right, is 5%.” — BG2 Pod Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:13:28 +0000 policy Gerstner argues regulatory burdens keep companies private longer, harming retail investors. https://minutesof.com/q/fa0e298b-b580-4e1c-9b76-2a7e5932332c/ https://minutesof.com/q/fa0e298b-b580-4e1c-9b76-2a7e5932332c/ “I think we're better off as a country when these companies are coming public sooner. But that's that's in fact what's happened. So we invest early.” — Hoover Institution Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:07:35 +0000 policy Gerstner proposes every child born gets a $1000 Invest America account in S&P 500. https://minutesof.com/q/ec8bc5b1-b003-4010-96a9-274edf2690d5/ https://minutesof.com/q/ec8bc5b1-b003-4010-96a9-274edf2690d5/ “So every child born, 3,700,000 children born in this country a year, they all get a thousand dollar investment account invested in the S and P 500.” — Summit Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:01:32 +0000 policy Gerstner argues US can address nuclear cost problems through regulatory consolidation and clustered reactor co https://minutesof.com/q/8da10156-cdab-417d-a096-e4612c67b49a/ https://minutesof.com/q/8da10156-cdab-417d-a096-e4612c67b49a/ “It seems to me the first two, right, we can tackle, right? You can consolidate the regulatory environment in The United States so that you reduce the time to bring one of these things online and I also think that if you clustered some of these, if we wanted to get back to building more of these reactors” — BG2 Pod Mon, 09 Sep 2024 02:12:29 +0000 policy Gerstner proposes seeding 3.7 million accounts annually with $1,000 each, costing $3.7 billion yearly. https://minutesof.com/q/27701a69-3ec7-45e9-9808-8c05682c9140/ https://minutesof.com/q/27701a69-3ec7-45e9-9808-8c05682c9140/ “This legislation will cause the Treasury Department to set up 3,700,000 private accounts. Those private accounts will be seeded with $1,000 from the federal government.” — iConnections Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:38:34 +0000 policy Gerstner proposes federal government seed $1,000 S&P 500 accounts for 3.7 million children born annually. https://minutesof.com/q/2a05d881-24a2-4b96-8910-9cc7525753d8/ https://minutesof.com/q/2a05d881-24a2-4b96-8910-9cc7525753d8/ “This idea is a bipartisan piece of legislation where the federal government will seed a private investment account for every child born in America. So think about this. 3,700,000 children born a year.” — Bloomberg Podcasts Mon, 20 Nov 2023 15:00:53 +0000 policy Gerstner proposes federal government seed $1,000 S&P 500 accounts for all newborns since 70% never benefit fro https://minutesof.com/q/9fa2e410-3dea-4663-a193-c840777d7165/ https://minutesof.com/q/9fa2e410-3dea-4663-a193-c840777d7165/ “Seed it with $1,000 in the S and P 500 because today, 70% of families and kids will never benefit from savings or investment, right?” — Elad Gil Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:27:02 +0000 policy