https://minutesof.com/on/history/ Everyone on the record about history: 36 verbatim quotes from 11 people, May 2016 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:00 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/c35b7482-c673-4f88-99bf-9189ad9d4ad0/ https://minutesof.com/q/c35b7482-c673-4f88-99bf-9189ad9d4ad0/ “In each of these episodes, productivity growth averaged around 3 percent. At other times, relatively slow productivity growth of around 1-1/2 percent prevailed.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches history https://minutesof.com/q/51f2e00e-7ee3-4707-ae15-0e1532531e40/ https://minutesof.com/q/51f2e00e-7ee3-4707-ae15-0e1532531e40/ “The productivity slowdown of the 1970s contributed to stagflation. And the productivity boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s was a contributing factor to that decade’s economic prosperity with low inflation.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches history https://minutesof.com/q/a6d5e80a-e4c1-4c24-9d37-f081e6ba53d1/ https://minutesof.com/q/a6d5e80a-e4c1-4c24-9d37-f081e6ba53d1/ “at that time stock exchange floors were loud places crowded with people and paper, Paul Volcker was the Federal Reserve chairman, having helped steer the country out of a period of high inflation, and a single European currency remained just an idea.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches history https://minutesof.com/q/b0e71a1f-17d5-462e-bfd3-b7ba3b20f057/ https://minutesof.com/q/b0e71a1f-17d5-462e-bfd3-b7ba3b20f057/ “MI6 is a historical creation that goes back to 1909 and there is no other European service that has a history with that depth.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Bloomberg Podcasts Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:50:30 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/2332de22-7128-46fc-a64d-e9035e64bf39/ https://minutesof.com/q/2332de22-7128-46fc-a64d-e9035e64bf39/ “bearing in mind MI6 is a historical creation that goes back to 1909 and there is no other European service that has a history with that depth.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Bloomberg Podcasts Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:50:30 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/c996f36f-0579-416d-bd76-6483ee10ee3b/ https://minutesof.com/q/c996f36f-0579-416d-bd76-6483ee10ee3b/ “The great southern the great southern populace, probably most of you in the in the room don't know who I'm talking about, but he's an interesting guy, kind of a crazy guy.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:00:25 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/c8452aaa-75a6-4472-bccb-4331fd1eac65/ https://minutesof.com/q/c8452aaa-75a6-4472-bccb-4331fd1eac65/ “I think the credit cycle has been very strong. It's gone on with the interruption of the pandemic, probably the longest time in history.” — Howard Marks, Barron's Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:53:42 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/d4c5c4c1-a967-4fbb-9315-393eadf29003/ https://minutesof.com/q/d4c5c4c1-a967-4fbb-9315-393eadf29003/ “When I started in this business as a young man, 1969, in the research department at Citibank, the bank and most of the banks invested in what were called the nifty 50, which were considered to be the best and fastest growing companies in America, Xerox, IBM, Kodak, Polaroid, Merck, Lilly, Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard, Coca Cola, Avon, etcetera.” — Howard Marks, Prof G Markets Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:07 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/6874b109-a4f7-4bea-a5c6-b01b6017397b/ https://minutesof.com/q/6874b109-a4f7-4bea-a5c6-b01b6017397b/ “When I started in this business as a young man, 1969, in the research department at Citibank, the bank and most of the banks invested in what were called the nifty 50, which were considered to be the best and fastest growing companies in America,” — Howard Marks, Prof G Markets Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:07 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/9803be00-5faa-425b-a7ba-9711847ea2e6/ https://minutesof.com/q/9803be00-5faa-425b-a7ba-9711847ea2e6/ “In every case, too much capital flowed in. I think it's fair to say too much infrastructure was built and prices were paid that were too high.” — Howard Marks, Prof G Markets Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:07 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/80bb5e00-3abf-4c45-8a38-d124594eeec1/ https://minutesof.com/q/80bb5e00-3abf-4c45-8a38-d124594eeec1/ “So the technological innovations I'm talking about, let's just for a starting point, let's say the railroads back in the 1860s And then radio in the nineteen twenties, the automobile, computers in the nineteen fifties and sixties, internet in 2000.” — Howard Marks, Prof G Markets Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:00:07 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/efa4c53a-8635-4d5f-b34a-cc2c3dfb3f6e/ https://minutesof.com/q/efa4c53a-8635-4d5f-b34a-cc2c3dfb3f6e/ “So, it was a and so that was a real disaster for the people who invested in the Nifty Fifty, which was most of the money center banks.” — Howard Marks, Nikhil Kamath Mon, 04 May 2026 14:30:01 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/d0ede649-8b8f-4c0d-99d3-cd78ef942a3d/ https://minutesof.com/q/d0ede649-8b8f-4c0d-99d3-cd78ef942a3d/ “And it was all about like, we're building this better world with all of these crazy technologies, rockets to the moon, plastics so we could all have cheap furniture.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:14:12 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/8bf971e1-e4b0-47b1-a4cb-152d6b0150ba/ https://minutesof.com/q/8bf971e1-e4b0-47b1-a4cb-152d6b0150ba/ “And it was all about like, we're building this better world with all of these crazy technologies,” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:14:12 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/927e1440-0337-43fc-acb7-56be4c641f2c/ https://minutesof.com/q/927e1440-0337-43fc-acb7-56be4c641f2c/ “There's a YouTube video called the Disney History Institute, the channel, and it shows, like, what Tomorrowland was like when when Disney opened in 1955.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:14:12 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/4559eaf4-eba4-46dd-aa22-1a16fbd7d704/ https://minutesof.com/q/4559eaf4-eba4-46dd-aa22-1a16fbd7d704/ “I'll give him a shout out because he still works at Climate Corp to this day I hired him after so he sold me a CD ROM of weather data.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:54:41 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/5987d7f9-280d-4fe5-9bf9-63a2855340fc/ https://minutesof.com/q/5987d7f9-280d-4fe5-9bf9-63a2855340fc/ “The sales guy was a guy named Jeff Hamlin. I'll give him a shout out because he still works at Climate Corp to this day.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:22:17 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/f7e5ee2a-9317-45ec-a0c6-e02fddeffd5d/ https://minutesof.com/q/f7e5ee2a-9317-45ec-a0c6-e02fddeffd5d/ “in 1993, debt to GDP was supposed to go from 40 to or 60 to 80 by experts, it in fact went from 60 to 40. Yes. So experts can be wrong by a lot.” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:11:39 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/a72408bf-d5d9-47ce-b4bd-6b75ee1ecf6c/ https://minutesof.com/q/a72408bf-d5d9-47ce-b4bd-6b75ee1ecf6c/ “I think '56. The state of play politically between The UK and The US was appalling it didn't stop Five Eyes from operating.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:02:35 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/19ce5cd5-6ed0-4a87-b4e6-03ba47bc7ede/ https://minutesof.com/q/19ce5cd5-6ed0-4a87-b4e6-03ba47bc7ede/ “Mean think of the relationship with The United States after the Suez invasion of nineteen fifty six am I right?” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:02:35 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/998a9eb2-da95-41e7-bbf1-27e99f0149b0/ https://minutesof.com/q/998a9eb2-da95-41e7-bbf1-27e99f0149b0/ “70% of the jobs that exist today did not exist in 1940. Okay? So we have to evolve and we have to expand.” — Brad Gerstner, Bloomberg Live Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:44:40 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/421d2739-ec5c-4d24-9b12-6f645516c4c0/ https://minutesof.com/q/421d2739-ec5c-4d24-9b12-6f645516c4c0/ “Forty years ago, private was three products, Private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds. All can be good investments, but all have risk. And public were 8,000 public companies, diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds.” — Marc Rowan, Barron's Thu, 22 May 2025 16:38:39 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/73bec5f7-cc95-43ca-bc75-4899189ca8ef/ https://minutesof.com/q/73bec5f7-cc95-43ca-bc75-4899189ca8ef/ “Urs and his team were building these super secret shipping container data centers. They had these like data center in a box that you could ship anywhere.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Fri, 16 May 2025 05:57:14 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/3947e345-55b3-483d-875d-069d4550ebd8/ https://minutesof.com/q/3947e345-55b3-483d-875d-069d4550ebd8/ “No income tax till 1913. None. Greatest, richest country in the world. So when Donald Trump says, Make America great again, what he's talking about is from 1880 to 1913,” — Howard Lutnick, All-In Podcast Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:46:53 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/fa5c49c7-b5a7-4526-9219-dc8c450ce0aa/ https://minutesof.com/q/fa5c49c7-b5a7-4526-9219-dc8c450ce0aa/ “99 of them never saw a single invention in their entire life. Their entire life, right, was about survival.” — Brad Gerstner, Summit Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:01:32 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/97a1c573-772d-4213-9a5a-7e1e0fbf75db/ https://minutesof.com/q/97a1c573-772d-4213-9a5a-7e1e0fbf75db/ “In 1955, Disneyland opened, I've told this story before with this ride called Tomorrowland. This area called Tomorrowland. I mean, you've been there. And every ride there was about the future opportunity with technology.” — David Friedberg, Tom Bilyeu Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:38 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/e9f1760d-4689-46a6-ab96-3d4c24053724/ https://minutesof.com/q/e9f1760d-4689-46a6-ab96-3d4c24053724/ “The company, Ohalo, is named after a site discovered next to the Sea Of Galilee called Ohalo 2. It's an archaeological site.” — David Friedberg, TED Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:23 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/8eaf019c-5b63-4084-9f1e-d9f702e716a9/ https://minutesof.com/q/8eaf019c-5b63-4084-9f1e-d9f702e716a9/ “when I started Climate Corp 2006, the first thing I did when I got a seed check to start the company is I went out and bought weather data, and I bought it from a company called RMS that sold weather data. The sales guy was a guy named Jeff Hamlin.” — David Friedberg, The Modern Acre Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:55:12 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/efd89160-d2e7-4d00-ab73-37a77d0de14a/ https://minutesof.com/q/efd89160-d2e7-4d00-ab73-37a77d0de14a/ “I'll never forget the time in the late nineties when I put out a memo, and within an hour or two, I had a, response back from somebody in Russia.” — Howard Marks, David Perell Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:20:30 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/9102e471-8ce1-4c9d-8fa0-bf7bfb5c44d8/ https://minutesof.com/q/9102e471-8ce1-4c9d-8fa0-bf7bfb5c44d8/ “Historically, there's never been a coup in Russia. There have been revolutions, there haven't been coups.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Hoover Institution Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:21:01 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/543c65f6-02a6-4cb4-9b49-e20274c7ab15/ https://minutesof.com/q/543c65f6-02a6-4cb4-9b49-e20274c7ab15/ “it's because of that scaremongering, if you look at the historical record, that MI6 was started in 1900 It had been a section of specifically naval intelligence before that, and then it was formalized into a separate organization. So its origins are tied up, strangely, with a certain amount of fiction.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Hoover Institution Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:21:01 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/4a9c1dda-b009-43f3-bf3d-5766c7c3697a/ https://minutesof.com/q/4a9c1dda-b009-43f3-bf3d-5766c7c3697a/ “And I'm not old enough to remember The US getting into Vietnam. But the thing to understand about all those wars is that they were incredibly popular at the time that we entered them.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Wed, 25 May 2022 04:01:25 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/b9f0e0f2-18b5-4431-bc17-82bf6118326a/ https://minutesof.com/q/b9f0e0f2-18b5-4431-bc17-82bf6118326a/ “1987, we saw 33% retracement. 2000, we saw 47%. 2008, we saw 56% and we're only 20 into this one.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sun, 15 Mar 2020 02:04:09 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/0cfb7c5a-c527-4a0b-851b-25e8158fa91e/ https://minutesof.com/q/0cfb7c5a-c527-4a0b-851b-25e8158fa91e/ “I would argue peak economic, political, social change as a result of that invention was seventy to one hundred years later during the peak of the industrial revolution eighteen twenty to eighteen fifty.” — Gavin Baker, Invest Like the Best Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:30:00 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/093b9558-e6b6-489b-b48d-4795396b0e93/ https://minutesof.com/q/093b9558-e6b6-489b-b48d-4795396b0e93/ “Silicon Valley's been, unhappy with the way the IPO works for a couple of decades now. I dug up, you know, some conversations Pierro Midiard had at eBay calling it undemocratic.” — Bill Gurley, Bloomberg Tech Wed, 02 Oct 2019 18:47:29 +0000 history https://minutesof.com/q/edf50a20-3a65-47fa-ba90-6d83b390bca3/ https://minutesof.com/q/edf50a20-3a65-47fa-ba90-6d83b390bca3/ “Edward Gibbon elegantly charted how Rome, with all its civic and administrative sophistication and military prowess, could not stop its empire being overrun by the mass movement of Europe's tribes.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, BBC News Mon, 16 May 2016 17:13:13 +0000 history