Garrett Wright
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Talking Wealth Strategy, Economics, & Finance. Former Professional Hockey Player
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon pushes back after being asked why America’s CEOs are afraid to criticize President Trump: “I’ve said what I think. What the hell else do you want me to say?” 🇺🇸 Interviewer: “I’m genuinely struck by the unwillingness of CEOs in America to say anything critical. There’s a climate of fear in your country. Would you agree with that?” Jamie Dimon: “The Davos intellectual elite. I’ve been coming to Davos all these years, listening to chatter and stuff like that. Has it done a good job making the world a better place? We get together and talk. What do you want me to do? I have strong views. Some of the things Trump has done are good, and some are not. I’m not a tariff guy. Do I use it in certain cases? Yes. I think they should change their approach to immigration. I’ve said it. What the hell else do you want me to say? I’m trying to have a conversation.”
Garrett Wright2,339,754 views • 4 days ago
Mark Cuban says he wants nothing to do with either political party: “The Republican Party is the Trump family business, and the Democratic Party doesn’t even know what it’s doing. They both suck.” 🇺🇸 Mark Cuban: “People think I’m a Democrat. I’m not. If it were up to me, I’d kick both parties to the curb. I think both parties suck. I’m a moderate independent.” Tucker Carlson: “If you were advising Elon, would you tell him to stay out of the Republican Party and try to win some seats for common sense? Would you back him?” Mark Cuban: “It depends on the policies and the politicians they were putting forward. Yes, I’m wide open to that. We need to look at each individual situation on its own merits. I just don’t care about either party. The Republican Party isn’t the Republican Party anymore. It’s the Trump family business. And the Democratic Party doesn’t even exist anymore because they don’t even know what they’re doing, and there’s nobody in charge. They both suck.”
Garrett Wright298,552 views • 1 day ago
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon mocks The Economist during a tense exchange after being told he’s sounding like Trump: “I’m not Trumpian. I’m factual.” 🇺🇸 Interviewer: “You’re sounding Trumpy.” Jamie Dimon: “I’m not Trumpian. I’m factual. I don’t agree with this binary shit that goes on all the time. I think The Economist is the absolute best, most admirable thing in the world, and you should continue that.” Dimon delivers the last line with apparent sarcasm, poking fun at the publication while pushing back against the idea that agreeing with Trump on certain issues makes him a Trump supporter.
Garrett Wright1,273,140 views • 4 days ago
🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson CONFRONTS Kevin O’Leary Over Taxpayer Subsidies for Billion-Dollar Data Centers: “Why Am I, as a Taxpayer, Forced to Pay for Your Business?” Tucker Carlson: “Your tenants are some of the richest companies in the world. Why should taxpayers be required to subsidize this? If it’s such a good business, why are you asking taxpayers to help pay for it without giving them equity in the company?” Kevin O’Leary: “I have to go raise $15 billion. That’s what it takes to build the first 1.5 gigawatts. Every state is competing for that investment. You’re going to create jobs, pay taxes, and build communities. What can you give me to incentivize me versus the state right beside you?” Tucker: “I run a couple of businesses, and we’re not getting any tax breaks. I think they’re every bit as virtuous as data centers. I’m not availing myself of that, and I wouldn’t take it anyway. It’s not the job of taxpayers to subsidize a private business.” O’Leary: “Welcome to America, buddy. This is how it’s gone on for 200 years.”
Garrett Wright413,502 views • 2 days ago
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns Europe is falling dangerously behind America economically… and blames anti-business, anti-investment, and anti-innovation policies. 🇺🇸🇪🇺 “If you don’t believe me, go to Europe, folks. Europe used to have a GDP per person of 90% of America’s. It’s now 65%. It’s on its way to 50%. That will jeopardize the health of Europe itself over time. And it’s all anti-business, anti-investment, anti-innovation. They kind of know it. If they don’t fix it—and we should help them fix it, because Europe matters—it’s really bad for the Western world, too. We should do it wisely.” Europe shift over the past three decades has proven decimating for their economy. Aging population forces mass immigration in order to maintain adequate growth. Crazy regulation and bureaucracy slows innovation and investment… forcing the economy further down. At the same time, the United States has pulled ahead exponentially and will continue to do so. Europe is struggling.
Garrett Wright226,894 views • 3 days ago
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Democrats have moved too far left, become too anti-business, and lost touch with common sense: “Stop blaming successful people for everything.” 🇺🇸 “I think they just got too far to the left, too anti-business, and too lacking in common sense. Climate change is a real issue. Did we do a lot of intensely stupid things? We did, and people know that. Did we overdo DEI in a lot of cases? Yeah, we did. Who thinks that if we give Washington another trillion dollars, it would be well spent instead of going to special interest groups? The inefficiency in the system is extraordinary.” Stop dragging down America. Stop blaming successful people for everything. Fix the schools. Lift up lower-paid people. I would double the Earned Income Tax Credit. That’s the best way to get money back in their hands.” Jamie is a realist and that pisses a lot of people off. It’s what happens when you fail to identify with one party in complete unison. Having the ability to critically think through issues is beyond rare these days and exactly why we as a country have become so divided.
Garrett Wright126,863 views • 2 days ago
Elon Musk challenges The Economist over its coverage of Europe: “More people die in Europe from heat than die from guns in America. Why aren’t you writing about air conditioning?” 🇺🇸🇪🇺 Musk: “There are more people dying in Europe from heat than people who die from guns in America. Why aren’t you writing about air conditioning?” The Economist interviewer: “We’ve done several pieces on air conditioning. We had a whole long piece on our cover last week. I think you have a view of The Economist that is not entirely accurate.”
Garrett Wright176,020 views • 3 days ago
Palmer Luckey warns America cannot compete with China’s population advantage forever through innovation alone: “We need 1 BILLION Americans minimum. Probably more like 2 or 3 billion.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳 “Yes, we need to get our act together. We need to do better at manufacturing, at defense, all these things. But everything is just biting around the margins if we’re 350 million people and they’re 2 billion people who are roughly the same. How exceptional do we have to be to achieve a 10-to-1 ratio forever, in perpetuity? It’s not practical. It’s not logical. I would say it’s even possibly a racist thing to believe that we can be so much better than China and the Chinese people that we’ll just beat them with a tiny fraction of the population. We need to do better with what we’ve got. But we also just need a lot more people. We need 1 billion Americans minimum, probably more like 2 or 3 billion, with better demographics and better natural resources. The Dutch once had the most powerful navy in the world. They didn’t lose that position because they fell behind on factories or shipbuilding. They became economically irrelevant.” Both countries are competing with respect to declining birth rates. Both nations must be more willing to have children and expand the population growth exponentially over the next decade. The current economic path is unsustainable if our labor force begins to shrink even with artificial intelligence on the rise.
Garrett Wright537,824 views • 8 days ago
Palmer Luckey says companies are exaggerating the cost of American manufacturing to justify staying in China: “They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳 “I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who pretend that manufacturing in the U.S. is this impossible, order-of-magnitude problem. A lot of it is very self-serving. They want to justify why they’re in China. They want to justify why it’s OK for them to stay in China. They know that when sanctions hit as a result of a potential Taiwan conflict, they want to say, ‘Nobody could’ve predicted this, and I had no choice anyway.’ They don’t want to admit that it is a choice. If Chinese subsidized steel is a third of the price of American unsubsidized steel, a tariff isn’t going to work. But if the price difference really is 30%, then a tariff could bring the American steel industry back. It’s critically important to get this question right, and there aren’t enough people talking about it.”
Garrett Wright891,077 views • 13 days ago
Palmer Luckey says China made a massive strategic mistake by shutting out American tech giants… and argues the U.S. should take full advantage of it 🇺🇸🇨🇳 “China tricked all of our tech companies and media companies into believing that China was this revenue opportunity. They basically caused our technology innovation economy to decouple from our government, our country, and our national responsibilities. What they should have done was actually give them a slice of the Chinese pie. They should’ve let Facebook in, given them some money, and then a little more and a little more to keep them on the line. But instead, they eventually said, ‘Ha ha, we tricked you. We’re not going to allow you in, and we’re going to subsidize ByteDance and TikTok to take over your entire social media industry.’ That was when American tech companies realized China was not their friend. We should take advantage of this mistake to the fullest.”
Garrett Wright483,700 views • 11 days ago
Palmer Luckey warns China won’t stop at Taiwan… and believes Beijing is already building a historical narrative to justify territorial claims over Okinawa, the Philippines, and other Pacific territories. 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼🇯🇵 “This is my crazy theory, and people can disagree with me. But nobody in history has ever built a gigantic amphibious landing force, used it once, and then dismantled it—except for the United States. If China takes Taiwan, I think they’re immediately going to hop over to Okinawa, parts of the Philippines, and maybe parts of Vietnam as well. Xi Jinping has been talking about the Ryukyu Islands, where Okinawa is located, and historical tributary relationships with China. They’re not bringing up ancient history just because they love wandering through national archives looking at obscure tributary states. They’re constructing a national narrative that would allow them to convince their people to start with Taiwan—and then go after more of America’s Pacific allies.”
Garrett Wright148,765 views • 6 days ago
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon pushes back on claims that Trump has destroyed the postwar world order, tells Americans to “take a deep breath,” and warns that political outrage without substance accomplishes nothing. 🇺🇸 “It’s not a rupture. If you become less reliable, you’re just less reliable. At some point, you become unreliable. I think it’s time for people to take a little bit of a deep breath. That does not mean I like it all. And of course, all my Democratic friends say, ‘You’ve got to say this, you’ve got to say that.’ They never talk in any detail whatsoever. They just huff and puff and get angry, and that doesn’t work.“ Jamie is exactly right. Huffing and puffing is useless for resolution. Running to take a deep breath and realize that geopolitical tension is not as bad as many believe it to be and a New World order is not on the rise.
Garrett Wright80,029 views • 4 days ago
Palmer Luckey says Putin believed Russia could conquer Ukraine in just 3–7 days… but corruption inside his own military left him completely unprepared 🇷🇺🇺🇦 “Putin hugely misestimated the outcome of this war. Whether you think he’s smart or dumb for doing it, it isn’t going the way he thought. They really believed this was going to be a three-to-seven-day special operation. They were going to go in, kick Ukraine’s ass, take Kyiv, and it was all going to be over. One of the reasons he was wrong was corruption within his own system. They had missing night vision, missing tires, missing fuel reserves, because it had all been sold out from under them. The paperwork had been falsified. He didn’t even understand his own strength. And he misunderstood where Ukraine was. People say Putin never really thought this was going to be a seven-day war. I think he truly believed it.”
Garrett Wright175,832 views • 10 days ago
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon explains why socialism is gaining popularity among young Americans and Democrats: “People see others getting unbelievably wealthy while they’ve been left behind. Shame on us.” 🇺🇸 “We have truly left people behind. You have these slogans about how the rich caused all this stuff, which is not true. But there is some truth to the frustration. If you’re the average citizen and you see these people getting unbelievably wealthy while your segment of society has been left behind, that’s kind of annoying. America has been doing much better over the decades, including for lower-income people. But relatively, they’ve been left behind. Your school isn’t doing well. You don’t have jobs. A plant closes in your town. Those were real consequences. Look at the towns that lost those plants. Unemployment went up. Suicide went up. Depression went up. And we didn’t fix it. Shame on us. But let’s figure out how we fix it going forward. Crying over spilled milk isn’t my nature.”
Garrett Wright31,087 views • 2 days ago
Elon Musk FIRES BACK at The Economist Over His Influence on European Politics: “A Quarter of a Billion People Follow Me. They Hate You… The Mainstream Media Far More Than They Hate Me.” 🇪🇺🇺🇸 The Economist interviewer: “Why should you be able to shape European politics? You don’t even live there. You’re the world’s richest man. Do you understand why people question what you’re doing?” Elon Musk: “I think of it as the West collectively.” Interviewer: “Do you understand why some people hate what you’re doing?” Musk: “I don’t care. The fact is, as you pointed out, a quarter of a billion people follow me. I think a lot more people actually like me than don’t. I think a lot more people hate you in the media than you realize. Do you realize that the public’s view of journalists is like 15% in the United States? They hate you. They hate you far more than they hate me.”
Garrett Wright43,343 views • 3 days ago
Palmer Luckey: “The U.S. and China will be like their own universes… and everybody else will be renting pieces of them.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳 “The U.S. and China will be in different worlds… almost like their own universes… and everybody else will be renting pieces of them. I think that’s pretty likely. There are a lot of people who look at a working-class American who’s against taxation and regulation and say, ‘Why is he voting against his own self-interest?’ But a lot of them understand something that the supposed elites do not: that regulatory climate, the one that allows for massive American dominance in technology, manufacturing, and productivity, is what makes America what it is. There are Americans who fundamentally understand that allowing innovation to happen is good for them. They understand that rockets going into space will make their lives better, even if it’s not directly. There are hungry people who would rather see a billion dollars go toward that than a food stamp program that would put extra food in their pantry. I don’t think you see that much in other countries.” We’re not far off from reaching a global oligopolistic type universe … where the two dominant powers control all essential outputs and everyone else is essentially renting space. Nations, countries, continents, all moving away from meaningful productivity growth, and becoming far too reliant on outdated economic metrics. Aggregate growth should be dependent on real output and not solely on fiscal spending and labor participation rates. We live in a world of slowing birth rates.
Garrett Wright181,848 views • 12 days ago
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says America’s affordable housing crisis is largely caused by government regulations… and fixing it wouldn’t require another dollar of government spending: “Good public policy is free.” 🇺🇸 “Good public policy is free. If we do a better job with schools, it’s free. If we improve our regulatory system, it’s free. I’m not just talking about banks, by the way. You could be a restaurant. You could be a small business. It’s terrible—federal, state, local permitting. The affordable housing problem? It’s all regulatory stuff. You can’t build a multifamily building. You can’t put this here. It doesn’t have enough parking. It’s got to have all these things. We can fix this stuff, and it’s free. The government doesn’t have to borrow more money to fix it. We already spend the money. We just need to fix the system. We should all get involved in fixing these policies that would make our country work far better. Deregulation is part of it.” Tough to argue with Jamie here, if you need an example, just look at Canada or Europe. The most unaffordable housing markets driven by over regulation and over permitting.
Garrett Wright41,528 views • 3 days ago
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon blasts Biden’s handling of the border and praises Trump for shutting down illegal immigration: “God bless him.” But he also calls for a path to citizenship for hardworking immigrants. 🇺🇸 “I’m still angry at the Biden administration for what they allowed to happen. I think it severely damaged our country. Then Trump comes in, it’s closed. God bless him. Countries have to control their borders, or it causes problems. You have that all over Europe, and it’s even worse there. In America, most people coming here want to be American. They come to work. They can’t wait to become citizens of the United States of America. I was with President Trump, and I said to him, ‘When you get the border controlled, fix the rest of it.’ A path to citizenship for hardworking people? Absolutely. And proper asylum? Absolutely. I would urge him to do that. I think he can, because he’s controlled the borders.”
Garrett Wright54,399 views • 4 days ago
Palmer Luckey explains why China is advancing so rapidly in technology and why the United States is struggling to keep up 🇺🇸🇨🇳 “The reason China is doing so well with advanced technology isn’t that they have a lot of people. It’s that they made a series of decisions that make high-tech companies much faster and much more effective. They have very low-cost energy. You can complain about all of their coal plants, but the net output is that they have a very, very low cost of energy. You have a really favorable labor environment. You have a very favorable logistics and supply chain world. You have very favorable laws regarding the extraction and processing of metals, minerals, and rare earths. People ask me, ‘Palmer, what can we do to catch up with China?’ I say, ‘We need way more energy. We’re probably going to need to burn a lot more fossil fuels, and we’re probably going to need to relax labor laws.’ And they say, ‘I want to catch up with China, but I don’t want to do any of the things they’re doing to lead.’ You have to make a choice at some point. It’s not really possible to say, ‘I want to win, but I’m not willing to do anything to do that.’”
Garrett Wright242,329 views • 16 days ago
Palmer Luckey warns that the Pentagon’s reliance on Chinese-owned Lenovo laptops would have been unimaginable during the Cold War: “It wouldn’t have even been believable as fiction.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳 “It would’ve been unthinkable. It wouldn’t have been believable as fiction. And yet that’s what happens today. Our largest laptop manufacturer for the Pentagon is Lenovo, which is owned by China. Their headquarters has a flagpole with the Chinese Communist Party flag, and then the Lenovo logo underneath it. It’s nuts. I’d say one more thing about why we’re not beating China.” Who would’ve thought in 2026 we’d still be pressing an issue of overreliance on strategic adversaries for critical technology used in our most defensible sector.
Garrett Wright69,235 views • 5 days ago