Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
6 of 9 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 28 Sep 2023 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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David Friedberg
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19 Mar 2020 – 19 Mar 2020
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David Sacks
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11 Apr 2020 – 1 May 2026
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Sir Richard Dearlove
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29 Oct 2020 – 29 Oct 2020
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Brad Gerstner
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28 Sep 2023 – 6 Jul 2026
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Gavin Baker
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4 Jan 2025 – 4 Jan 2025
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Howard Lutnick
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12 Mar 2025 – 12 Mar 2025
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- Dylan Patel 2 thin 31 Oct 2025 – 31 Oct 2025 +764 d
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Scott Bessent
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20 Aug 2026 – 20 Aug 2026
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John Williams
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The chronologysourced and dated, oldest first
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David Friedberg
Friedberg calculates a three-month shutdown would cost the US economy $4.5 trillion.
“Every let's assume the whole economy shuts down. Every month that we're shut down costs us 1,500,000,000,000. So if we're gonna have the country shut down for, say, three months, we're losing $4,500,000,000,000 right there.”
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David Sacks
Sacks estimates a 30% economic hole with 15-30% unemployment and GDP contracting by a quarter to a third.
“We don't know yet. You've got a, you know, we think that GDP is going to contract in the next quarter by a quarter to a third.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove says Russia has roughly the GDP of Italy, ranking thirteenth or fourteenth globally.
“But bear in mind, and people are surprised when I say this, that Russia, in fact, now has more or less the GDP of Italy, somewhere around thirteenth or fourteenth in the world.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner notes Fed raised its 2024 GDP forecast from 1.1% in June to 1.5% today.
“The Fed forecast in June of this year for GDP growth for 2024 was 1.1%. Today, the Fed forecast for GDP growth in 2024 is 1.5%. It went up.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner notes global GDP had almost zero increase from year zero to 1800 before growth began with Adam Smith.
“Up until the year 1800, the year '0 to 1800, there was almost zero increase, right, in human prosperity, almost zero GDP. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1780.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner says global GDP now doubles every 20 years versus every 100 years in the 1800s but prosperity is unequal.
“The period of time between 1800 and 1900, it was doubling every 100 years. Global GDP is now doubling every 20 years. But the prosperity is not distributed equally, right?”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner states expiring individual tax cuts are worth 150 billion dollars or 60 basis points of GDP.
“the individual tax cuts, which included increasing the child tax credit, the standard deduction, it's it's worth about a $150,000,000,000 a year to put it in perspective.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner says GDP was flat for 1800 years then went parabolic after 1800.
“Eighteen hundred years, okay? Almost zero growth in GDP. And then just after the year 1800, you have this parabolic move in global GDP.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner says US GDP per capita is 100x Nicaragua's today versus equal 100 years ago.
“The today, the GDP per capita of The United States to Nicaragua is a 100 x. Why? Right? We're living at a time where I think there's a lot of controversy about capitalism.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner claims all human GDP growth occurred after America's founding and wealth of nations publication.
“So we have two thousand years, you have no GDP growth. And it all happens to magically line up with, you know, the founding of America, the wealth of nations, limited government, entrepreneurialism, etcetera.”
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Gavin Baker
Baker predicts America will achieve over 5% real GDP growth in one year due to AI and deregulation.
“I think that America over the next at some point over the next four years will print at least one year of greater than 5% GDP growth, real GDP growth.”
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Howard Lutnick
Lutnick claims each trillion dollars of investment brought back equals one percent of GDP growth.
“Each trillion of Donald Trump's investment that he's bringing back with these tariffs is 1% of GDP.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner calculates every $300 billion in cuts equals 1% GDP headwind, making $2 trillion cuts impossible without recession.
“The problem is every $300,000,000,000 you cut is a 1% headwind to GDP. So if you cut $2,000,000,000,000 in a single year, you have negative 7% GDP, right? It would throw us into a recession”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner argues cutting $2 trillion in one year would create negative 7% GDP and trigger recession.
“The problem is every $300,000,000,000 you cut is a 1% headwind to GDP. So if you cut $2,000,000,000,000 in a single year, you have negative 7% GDP, right?”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner notes technology grew from 3% of global GDP in 2000 to 15% today, likely to increase further.
“Back in 2000, technology represented about 3% of the global GDP. Today, it represents about 15 of global GDP, right?”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner calculates cutting $2 trillion in one year would create 800 basis point GDP headwind.
“You can't just cut 2,000,000,000,000 in a single year. That would be an 800 basis point headwind to GDP.”
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David Sacks
Sacks frames AI as the difference between 4% great growth and 2% modest growth for the economy.
“So AI is the difference between having great GDP growth, say around 4%, and modest GDP growth around 2%.”
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Dylan Patel
Patel estimates AI infrastructure represents 25-75% of current US quarterly economic growth.
“it's a substantial fraction of economic growth, depending on who you ask. It's anywhere from 25% to 75 of the current quarter's economic growth. That's insane for The US.”
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Dylan Patel
Patel states AI infrastructure represents 25% to 75% of current US quarterly economic growth.
“It's anywhere from 25% to 75 of the current quarter's economic growth. That's insane for The US.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner says AI added 100 basis points to GDP this year despite NVIDIA's 225% drawdowns.
“It added a 100 basis points to GDP this year. But remember, this year, we had 225% drawdowns in Nvidia.”
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David Sacks
Sacks asserts AI has caused no meaningful job loss yet and has driven half of this year's 4% GDP growth.
“Not in any meaningful numbers. And in fact, AI has been responsible for about half of GDP growth this year. So GDP growth is about 4%.”
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David Sacks
Sacks cites breaking data showing US productivity at 4.9% and Q4 GDP forecast climbing to 5.4%.
“US productivity just surged 4.9%, the strongest reading in nearly six years. And this is the news item, is that the Atlanta Fed, their forecast for q four GDP just climbed to 5.4%.”
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David Sacks
Sacks cites Q4 GDP growth rate of 5.4% despite government shutdown as beyond expectations.
“But, you know, in Q4 GDP growth rate 5.4% despite a government shutdown that just, you know, that number just kind of blew everyone away.”
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David Sacks
Sacks says AI infrastructure build-out added 2% to GDP growth rate last year, helping reach 4-5% overall.
“And just last year, this infrastructure build out added about 2% to the GDP growth rate. And I think and that's what helped propel us to this, you know, four to 5% growth rate.”
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David Sacks
Sacks says $650 billion hyperscaler CapEx this year creates 2% GDP tailwind, excluding energy and productivity gains.
“I think $650,000,000,000 this year just in CapEx from the hyperscalers. That's about a 2% tailwind to GDP just from all the construction that's happening. I don't think that includes essentially all the energy.”
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David Sacks
Sacks cites report that AI represented 75% of GDP growth last quarter, just from infrastructure capex.
“There's another article saying that I think in the last quarter AI was 75% of GDP growth. And by the way, this is just the CapEx part. This is the physical infrastructure.”
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Brad Gerstner
Gerstner claims AI investment is contributing over 100 basis points to US GDP growth this year.
“This is the single most important contributor to the GDP growth of The United States Of America this year. It's contributing over a 100 basis points of our GDP growth.”
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Scott Bessent
Bessent says 2025 showed fiscal consolidation at 5.7% of GDP, with tariff refunds temporarily inflating the deficit.
“We actually had a fiscal consolidation for the calendar year 2025. You know, we we had we were at about 5.7% of GDP.”
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Scott Bessent
Bessent says deficit fell to 5.7% of GDP in 2025, cites temporary tariff refunds as factor.
“You know, we we had we were at about 5.7% of GDP. And one of the things that's temporary here that's influencing the deficit has been these tariff refunds.”
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John Williams
Williams says first-half GDP growth was about 1.5 percent, well below last year's 2.5 percent pace.
“Looking through the downs and ups in the data, growth in the first half of the year was about 1-1/2 percent, well below last year’s 2-1/2 percent pace.”
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John Williams
Williams says real GDP grew 2 percent in 2025 and expects that pace to continue this year.
“Real GDP grew 2 percent in 2025 and is poised to maintain that pace for the rest of this year.”
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John Williams
Williams says GDP growth has been around 2 percent for the past year and a half.
“For the past year and a half, we’ve seen solid GDP growth, at around 2 percent.”
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John Williams
Williams says the balance sheet has fallen from 35 percent of GDP in early 2022 to around 22 percent now.
“Our balance sheet has fallen from the equivalent of around 35 percent of GDP, in early 2022, to around 22 percent of GDP now.”
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John Williams
Williams says SOMA portfolio is now $6.4 trillion or 20 percent of GDP, down from pandemic peak of $8.5 trillion.
“Assets are now slowly growing in dollar terms, via RMPs, to maintain ample reserves and accommodate growth in the demand for Federal Reserve liabilities.”
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John Williams
Williams expects GDP growth of 2.5 to 2.75 percent in 2026, driven by fiscal policy and AI investment.
“I expect the economy to grow above trend this year, with real GDP growth between 2-1/2 and 2-3/4 percent.”
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John Williams
Williams expects GDP growth near 2.5 percent this year from fiscal policy, financial conditions, and AI investment.
“I expect real GDP growth to be close to 2-1/2 percent this year, reflecting tailwinds from fiscal policy, favorable financial conditions, and investment in AI.”
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John Williams
Williams forecasts 2.5 percent GDP growth this year with unemployment edging down through next year.
“With growth running above potential, I expect the unemployment rate to edge down over this year and next.”
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John Williams
Williams expects GDP growth of about 2.5 percent this year driven by fiscal stimulus, financial conditions, and AI investment.
“I expect real GDP to grow about 2-1/2 percent this year, supported by stimulus from fiscal policy, favorable financial conditions, and robust investments in artificial intelligence.”
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John Williams
Williams expects real GDP growth to slow considerably to just over 1 percent this year.
“I expect real GDP growth this year will slow considerably from last year’s pace, to just over 1 percent.”
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John Williams
Williams forecasts GDP growth of 2 to 2.25 percent and unemployment of 4.25 to 4.5 percent.
“Consequently, with growth around its trend pace, I expect the unemployment rate will remain in its recent range of 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent.”
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John Williams
Williams expects real GDP growth of about 1 percent in 2025.
“As a result, I expect real GDP growth this year to be about 1 percent.”
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John Williams
Williams expects GDP growth in 2025 to be between 1.25 and 1.5 percent.
“As a result, I expect GDP growth this year to be between 1-1/4 and 1-1/2 percent.”
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“Looking ahead, I expect real GDP growth to be around 2 to 2-1/4 percent this year and over the next two years.”
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John Williams
Williams forecasts GDP growth of 2 to 2.25 percent with unemployment declining to 4 percent by 2028.
“With growth running modestly above my estimate of its potential rate of 2 percent, I expect the unemployment rate to edge down very gradually to 4 percent in 2028.”
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Where they overlapsame programme, same subject
- All-In Podcast also carries David Friedberg, David Sacks and Gavin Baker on this subject, at different times.
- CNBC Television also carries Brad Gerstner and Scott Bessent on this subject, at different times.