Brad Gerstner
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I attribute it, I think,
to the fact that we've had all this layoff news, inflation ticked up to 3%.
Everybody knows it was down at 2.3.
We had made great progress on it, but now it went back up.
And there's a lot of survey data going on right now.
And I think
If you look at this next chart, it's super interesting.
What gets all the press is the foreign policy, right?
We're talking about wars ending and great job in the Middle East for Trump and Jared and the team.
Border security immigration, of course, a big win in terms of shutting the border, bit controversial on ICE, but that's my personal stuff.
So I'll leave it out here and we'll just talk about brass tacks.
If you look at where
the country feels Trump has fallen short, it's where he's strongest or where he was elected for being so strong.
Look at these last three here, Chamath.
The economy, 63% believe Trump has fallen short.
Looking out for the middle class, this is the one that should be the most disturbing.
65% of the country believes he's fallen short and inflation and the cost of living, 66%.
If you look at this next chart, this one has been trending online
And I've been talking about unemployment and I've been attributing it to AI.
I know some people think I'm crying wolf here or I'm the boy who cried wolf, but the statistics are starting to trend towards my position, I believe.