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Robert Kaplan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
119 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

And two years from now, they're going to be a whole lot smarter.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

Two years is going to be an eternity.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

Yes.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

But businesses will be a whole lot smarter.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

Some of them are saying, I want to do more strategic merger activity to help mitigate some of the risk here.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

But we're learning right now.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

So anybody who tells you, I know exactly how this is going, they don't know.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

The smartest people I know are in the middle of it, and they're open to learning and are not prejudging it.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

Well, so a lot of our attention, because we can't avoid it, is all the CapEx and the compute infrastructure part.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

Yeah.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

Okay.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

Then there's the adoption companies, which are extremely highly valued.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

And the truth is, I have no doubt we need to create more compute.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

How the adoption companies are going to shake out, I think that's where more of the uncertainty is.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

And that's where the software situation, the first reaction is it's going to be disruptive.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

I think the second reaction after people calm down is, but clients are going to need advice to help with the installation.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

And software companies are critical of that.

Bloomberg Talks
Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs, Robert Kaplan, Talks Monetary Policy, Geopolitical Risk

So I think we're literally wrestling our way through this.

Bloomberg News Now
Trump's Minnesota De-Escalation, Fed Decision Day, More

Yes, it is true a weaker dollar boosts exports.

Bloomberg News Now
Trump's Minnesota De-Escalation, Fed Decision Day, More

However, we have in the United States has 39 trillion of debt on its way to 40 trillion plus.