Carol Massar

Because we think about this White House, right?

And encouraging investment from foreign companies to build here.

I mean, I guess, you know, that's the good thing, right?

We want to see other companies investing into the United States, but there's a power grab on that too, right?

As a result of that, in order to meet that.

Or potentially?

Right, Tim?

If it's 100 years old, why 20 years ago?

Yeah.

Well, you know, and I think about how do you balance all of that?

Like affordability, as you know, has become quite the word that we are hearing a lot, certainly in the political environment.

So how do you keep your investors happy and the grid reliable without rising bills that make your customers furious and invite regulatory and political pushback?

I mean, that is a hard mandate.

You know, bottom line, though, does this potentially, as you guys are very careful about when you invest so that power prices don't go up, but are there going to be moments where prices are just going to go up just because of the environment and it's hard to kind of predict everything?

And forgive me, just got about 30 seconds.

Yeah, it is.

Shares of the $2.1 billion market cap company, about 14%, up more than 12% since reporting those earnings back on October 22nd.

Delighted to have with us Scott Sanborn, CEO of Lending Club, also CEO for close to a decade at Lending Club for 15 years now.

Also with us here in the Bloomberg Businessweek studio, Herman Chan, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst for U.S.

Regional Banks.