Brad Gerstner

It says, you know, the cynical take has always been that this just wouldn't last, that companies wouldn't be able to maintain this level of discipline, and that they were doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

It's never different this time, as they say.

But the cynical take seems wrong again.

And the number of examples of companies that have adopted this mindset, culture, behavior of efficiency and getting fit appears to be growing quarterly.

Guess what?

It's cool to have fat margins, no debt, maximum flexibility, and be efficient and more faster.

Credit to Ashton Curtis.

But they're saying, you know, they're out there talking to the companies.

I'm not saying that there's no AI effect.

But the idea that you're gonna hang all of these layoffs on AI, I just think- I would never hang them all on AI.

Why are you sympathetic to it, Jamal?

Yeah, so the debate was at Stanford, sponsored by the Economics Department on whether or not billionaires should be allowed to exist in America.

I can't talk about what we debated in the room as Chatham House Rules, but I will tell you this, that a preponderance of people on their way in thought that they should ban billionaires in the United States, right?

I think it's a fundamental fight for the soul of America going on right now.

This goes to the very basic premise of the American dream.

Is there economic mobility in America?

But I think Republicans have to get real about this.

I think they have.

The president ran on a Main Street agenda.

He passed the Invest America Act.