https://minutesof.com/on/inequality/ Everyone on the record about inequality: 13 verbatim quotes from 7 people, December 2019 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:01 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/fa7355fa-099c-4a81-b27d-0950a6d8b7f4/ https://minutesof.com/q/fa7355fa-099c-4a81-b27d-0950a6d8b7f4/ “Research by New York Fed economists found that over recent years, higher-income households and homeowners have experienced substantially stronger consumption growth than lower-income households and renters.” — John Williams, NY Fed speeches inequality https://minutesof.com/q/875ab691-9e95-46e1-98d7-05de6c1ced53/ https://minutesof.com/q/875ab691-9e95-46e1-98d7-05de6c1ced53/ “If the Fed gets inflation wrong and judges the economy wrong, who gets the worst of it? Not the financial high flyers.” — Kevin Warsh, Reuters Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:51:10 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/fb267894-f670-43d9-b8fa-edf17714769f/ https://minutesof.com/q/fb267894-f670-43d9-b8fa-edf17714769f/ “They have more debt than they have assets and everything's getting more expensive and no one's moving up the economic ladder. There's no mobility anymore.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Tue, 12 May 2026 21:17:30 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/bb6d68b1-6b16-4f3f-a2f0-e6bb7121506d/ https://minutesof.com/q/bb6d68b1-6b16-4f3f-a2f0-e6bb7121506d/ “I just think, in fact, one thing I might worry about in a, in a AI world is these high agency fascinated people might separate. Even more.” — Bill Gurley, MIT Sloan VCPE Mon, 11 May 2026 19:59:13 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/bd34934b-1867-41db-90e5-d28702f49580/ https://minutesof.com/q/bd34934b-1867-41db-90e5-d28702f49580/ “Nowadays, people in the ninetieth percentile think they're middle class, and people in the fiftieth percentile don't think they're middle class.” — Dylan Patel, Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/ae3d803c-2ca0-4deb-bd9f-97e93f51e0c1/ https://minutesof.com/q/ae3d803c-2ca0-4deb-bd9f-97e93f51e0c1/ “Nowadays, people in the ninetieth percentile think they're middle class, and people in the fiftieth percentile don't think they're middle class. Yeah.” — Dylan Patel, Matthew Berman Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:07:47 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/3d9e183d-1dda-4fdc-a506-b15fb2eafed0/ https://minutesof.com/q/3d9e183d-1dda-4fdc-a506-b15fb2eafed0/ “But going from nothing to something. Yes. Going from zero and the prospect of zero your whole life to one, that is a far bigger move than going from one to five.” — Brad Gerstner, Prof G Markets Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:00:48 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/443ec3b2-6c8e-4b4b-a0a9-8f5b79f5e7d9/ https://minutesof.com/q/443ec3b2-6c8e-4b4b-a0a9-8f5b79f5e7d9/ “Under the age of 18, that's 65,000,000 kids. And of those 65,000,000, 50,000,000 would never own an account that compounds.” — Brad Gerstner, Prof G Markets Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:00:48 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/823c7162-0b03-49aa-a59b-2ff282b08a9c/ https://minutesof.com/q/823c7162-0b03-49aa-a59b-2ff282b08a9c/ “Global wealth, as measured by the mountain of labor and capital that exists in the world, the conveniences that will be available to people will be better than they've ever been before, but the distribution of those will be way more concentrated” — Brad Gerstner, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/5efd8221-e7b8-46b2-972a-8c2d0e9de083/ https://minutesof.com/q/5efd8221-e7b8-46b2-972a-8c2d0e9de083/ “Global wealth, as measured by the mountain of labor and capital that exists in the world, the conveniences that will be available to people will be better than they've ever been before, but the distribution of those will be way more concentrated as we've already seen.” — Brad Gerstner, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/947329e8-4130-4bf5-ab5b-9a62051076ea/ https://minutesof.com/q/947329e8-4130-4bf5-ab5b-9a62051076ea/ “I would argue that's not really a feature of capitalism so much as it's a feature of a technology revolution.” — Brad Gerstner, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/210dfc69-b305-42f4-b9cd-7d76ef71ed16/ https://minutesof.com/q/210dfc69-b305-42f4-b9cd-7d76ef71ed16/ “Let's just take poverty in The United States. It was 26% a few decades ago. It was 16% in the financial crisis, and it's 13% now. It's at an all time low.” — Stanley Druckenmiller, Bloomberg Television Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:44:41 +0000 inequality https://minutesof.com/q/34e9616a-d454-4673-904e-a0acb8516308/ https://minutesof.com/q/34e9616a-d454-4673-904e-a0acb8516308/ “And with regard to all this other talk about billionaires and so forth. So during that same period, you've created 2,500 billionaires, but you've brought a billion people out of poverty.” — Stanley Druckenmiller, Bloomberg Television Thu, 19 Dec 2019 02:48:34 +0000 inequality