back to indexE86: Macro outlook: jobs, housing, inflation + Dutch farmers protests & EU climate missteps
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0:0 Bestie open: Sacks' shopping spree
2:15 Macro outlook: jobs, consumer sentiment, housing, inflation, finding a bottom
39:21 Turkish government finds ~694 million mt of rare earth reserves & EU reclassifies nuclear & natural gas as "green"
48:58 Dutch farmers protests: root causes, how to move forward with smarter legislation
69:39 Biden's decline, Bezos responds to Biden's tweet on bringing gas prices down
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Okay, everybody, welcome to All In episode 86, 00:01:02.300 |
End of the World, except for these two douchebags. 00:01:04.960 |
We thought it'd be really funny to find the exact same outfit at Loro Piana. 00:01:35.820 |
Hey, everybody, welcome to episode 86 of the All In podcast. 00:01:40.940 |
Still publishing with us from Italy, the Rain Man and the Dictator in matching outfits. 00:01:52.260 |
And also with us, the Sultan of Science himself, David Friedberg from an undisclosed conference. 00:02:22.880 |
significant risk that elevated inflation could become entrenched if the public began to question 00:02:30.200 |
So they went from transient to now fearing entrenched. 00:02:37.380 |
But just to give some context here, we're still a historic number of job openings. 00:02:54.100 |
If you look at this Fred chart, it's just astounding to think that this, 00:02:58.800 |
many jobs are available, two for one in the United States. 00:03:01.760 |
There are two jobs available for every one person who needs a job. 00:03:13.500 |
Dropping down dramatically in the white collar sector is what the data is showing. 00:03:34.100 |
the thing that we know here is we have a structural unemployment problem. 00:03:40.160 |
which means those openings aren't paying enough for people to leave the sidelines and get on the field. 00:03:52.020 |
these job openings might actually be indicative of the opposite of what the Fed is telling us, 00:03:58.640 |
The Fed wants us to believe that they can just keep jacking up rates and then we're not going to go into recession because we have all these open job recs. 00:04:05.400 |
But what if we should see the labor market as really two separate markets? 00:04:09.020 |
They're sort of white collar professionals and you're seeing all of these tech companies that were involved in slam on the brakes really quickly right now. 00:04:18.780 |
So we're going to see greater unemployment there. 00:04:23.800 |
you have this issue of record low labor participation. 00:04:28.280 |
And so you still have inflation there because they can't fill all the jobs because there's all these like warped incentives around that. 00:04:37.520 |
Sacks were 10% off the peak in terms of participation. 00:04:43.160 |
it would really fill a lot of these jobs that would increase the production of goods and services that might take some of the pressure off inflation. 00:04:49.400 |
And it would also increase monetary velocity, 00:04:51.960 |
Sacks people would spend the money they make, 00:04:55.720 |
I think part of the problem with the Fed's approach here is that, 00:04:58.160 |
it's assuming that if they just keep jacking up rates that will, 00:05:01.340 |
that will reduce demand and that will stop or slow down inflation. 00:05:06.220 |
I don't think this inflation is purely a problem of excess demand. 00:05:12.400 |
meaning that not enough goods and services are being produced. 00:05:15.200 |
And the commodity is the inputs that we need to the production of goods and services. 00:05:22.400 |
They've been inflated and that started well before the Ukraine war. 00:05:25.840 |
But I think the Ukraine war has now exacerbated. 00:05:28.040 |
This problem with respect to energy and food. 00:05:30.200 |
If you had seven minutes for your over under for sacks to mention Ukraine, 00:05:39.600 |
I think that's actually really good framing that it's an exacerbator. 00:05:48.260 |
let me just give you the quits number because this is really interesting. 00:05:50.720 |
These are people who are obviously quitting jobs. 00:05:59.920 |
Free pandemic quits averaged under 3 million a month. 00:06:04.900 |
it's just staggering to think that in an economy that's going down, 00:06:11.960 |
It's indicative of people believing that they can get another job. 00:06:15.700 |
You don't quit your job if you don't think you can get another one or you have some savings available. 00:06:24.520 |
spend a little free time going on vacation or there's a new economy. 00:06:28.940 |
one of the cases to be made is that the pandemic and the stimulus that followed created a staggering short shift in the types of jobs and the types of businesses that people, 00:06:44.980 |
a lot of people were able to shift to work from home. 00:06:48.900 |
you have more flexibility and freedom to choose other jobs that you can now do from home. 00:06:52.680 |
And people don't want to work in restaurants. 00:07:00.320 |
or on demand type job where they can have more freedom and flexibility and more earnings in their life, 00:07:05.780 |
And this happened so quickly because of the shutdown, 00:07:10.460 |
the trillion dollars or $2 trillion that poured in, 00:07:12.620 |
it created all these new opportunities and all these new incentives for new types of work. 00:07:20.420 |
all the fast food restaurants and the coffee shops, 00:07:23.300 |
they're sitting with half employment and they can't fill the jobs because that's, 00:07:27.440 |
that that used to be a job that there was demand for. 00:07:35.100 |
I don't know if that necessarily reverts in the near term, 00:07:37.700 |
because I do think that there's been a substantial, 00:07:39.620 |
almost permanent change in some of these sectors of the economy, 00:07:44.480 |
but it leaves big gaps in parts of the economy and maybe fast food restaurants are not going to be as cheap as they used to be. 00:07:49.940 |
Because in order to get people to work there, 00:07:52.220 |
And there's other parts of the economy like services and selling stuff on Etsy and whatnot that are working for people. 00:07:57.260 |
Let me just put a number on that and then hand it off to you, 00:08:00.980 |
The jobs that fell the most white collar off 325,000 and manufacturing 208,000, 00:08:06.560 |
the jobs that are increasing the most hospitality and retail. 00:08:12.920 |
This whole thing was accelerated during the pandemic, 00:08:18.260 |
do you actually think that these new options of work from home and remote work have actually made the economy more productive? 00:08:29.480 |
if you give them the freedom over the decision of their trade off between work and leisure and let them decide. 00:08:40.640 |
If you take a big step back to the day before the lockdowns started, 00:08:46.340 |
we had a normal functioning and economy that was growing by call it 2% a year. 00:08:51.680 |
And the minute that we enforce these lockdowns, 00:08:56.900 |
I actually think what we did was we started a supply side recession. 00:09:03.440 |
Let's just say you're a factory and you make wheels. 00:09:20.960 |
you need to shut your factory down because we can't have people spending too much time close together because we 00:09:34.640 |
These people that used to work for you get two and a half trillion dollars put into their bank accounts. 00:09:49.580 |
And now all of a sudden you find that because everything all around the world was shut down, 00:10:05.840 |
you gave everybody else two and a half trillion dollars. 00:10:13.040 |
give it to me before you give it to somebody else. 00:10:14.660 |
So that is like the classic definition of a supply side recession. 00:10:22.640 |
And the Fed basically confirmed this in the minutes that they just released. 00:10:27.200 |
can you just read the quote that you had in the, 00:10:31.460 |
a significant risk that elevated inflation should become entrenched. 00:10:34.220 |
If the public begins to question the resolve, 00:10:37.820 |
we were kind of in a supply side recession and now by raising rates to some crazy amount, 00:10:43.460 |
the end of which we were still not sure about may actually then trigger the demand destruction to have a demand side recession. 00:10:51.860 |
I don't know that we've lived in a modern point in time where both of us, 00:10:57.920 |
There's been a principle of macro economics that you're, 00:11:08.540 |
And now we're trying to figure out when we exhaust, 00:11:13.100 |
all of the money we've given people and we destroy demand and take the incentives for demand to go away, 00:11:23.180 |
we're going to figure that out in the next six or nine months. 00:11:27.140 |
It's not as if the supply side of the economy has been fixed. 00:11:30.560 |
It's not as if everybody is running at a hundred percent capacity. 00:11:33.740 |
It's not as if all the supply chain issues have been worked out. 00:11:38.360 |
I just think it's a very perfect complicated situation. 00:11:47.900 |
impact because people are not going to work anymore. 00:11:56.960 |
So you can comment on what's happening and then restaurants and commuting and all the stuff that was happening downtown, 00:12:05.180 |
Let Maryland and breed had a press conference and she's been tweeting, 00:12:34.920 |
they're expecting 30 million square feet of office vacancy, 00:12:47.660 |
So the first thing I did is I tried to Google what's the total square footage in San Francisco. 00:12:54.780 |
So you're talking about 40% vacancy by the end of the year. 00:13:01.820 |
San Francisco is fairly unique and a bit of an outlier in the circumstance because so much of it was, 00:13:07.100 |
tech heavy and so much of it went remote and the city and it all got crime. 00:13:18.660 |
Here's the piece of it that people aren't really thinking about, 00:13:20.960 |
which is the only reason it's stable is because, 00:13:26.900 |
And this is why it turns out that we work with a pretty bad business model is because if you're, 00:13:31.160 |
if all your leases are month to month and you hit a recession, 00:13:35.540 |
This is why landlords like longterm leases with credit worthy tenants. 00:13:44.840 |
is that as these tenants start to roll their leases roll over the next few years, 00:13:51.260 |
they don't need as much space because they've either gone remote or they're, 00:13:56.080 |
And so they're thinking of their office less as a headquarters, 00:13:59.160 |
whichever one needs to go to and more as like a coworking space, 00:14:06.100 |
This is why San Francisco keeps increasing its vacancy is that as more and more of these leases roll, 00:14:18.820 |
Here's the problem is that these buildings have debt on them, 00:14:30.820 |
you as a building owner become in default on your debt covenants. 00:14:35.060 |
If your revenue from the building drops below a certain number, 00:14:39.820 |
all these new leases that get signed to the extent there are any, 00:14:43.380 |
they're going to be at a fraction of what the old leases were because this, 00:14:46.940 |
this vacancy is going to create a massively low market clearing price. 00:14:51.340 |
Am I right to understand that they're not allowed to sign those leases because 00:14:55.280 |
So can the landlord take it as better than nothing or do they are not allowed to take it? 00:14:59.840 |
It's not that it's just that the market clearing price is going to be so much lower than their old leases that when they then look at the revenue from the building. 00:15:08.420 |
that building is going to have a lot of vacancy on it. 00:15:09.880 |
Now they're just not gonna be able to hit their, 00:15:14.820 |
What that means is I don't understand how in a place like downtown San Francisco, 00:15:18.840 |
half the buildings don't end up getting owned by the banks. 00:15:21.840 |
the banks don't want to own all these buildings. 00:15:25.300 |
but I don't know who the buyers are going to be. 00:15:28.620 |
that's the only thing that they got to convert these to residential because we have a housing crisis still. 00:15:36.740 |
you need the cooperation of the city government, 00:15:40.100 |
then you need developers to come in and have the capital to, 00:15:48.780 |
If you know that a huge chunk of the real estate in is the 00:15:54.580 |
commercial real estate in downtown San Francisco, 00:15:59.920 |
Who are those financial institutions who own those assets because they are now toxic assets and they will be revealed to be toxic assets as soon as the leases roll. 00:16:08.580 |
and then there are debt funds and banks as well. 00:16:12.700 |
And so what are the cascading effects when those shoes start to drop? 00:16:18.400 |
And so just to put a finer point also on the jobs and that was our flop, 00:16:30.060 |
So the obvious solution to our employment issues is to recruit people from other countries, 00:16:41.580 |
2016 Biden also is in favor of closing the borders. 00:16:47.760 |
America is not the shining people still light on the hill. 00:16:54.340 |
and there are easily have three or 4 million people coming into the country if we wanted to. 00:16:58.480 |
But we have 3 million people have come in just under Biden and illegal migration. 00:17:06.280 |
so just make sure you count that because we've basically had a open border policy. 00:17:11.560 |
if we didn't allow those workers in what would happen. 00:17:41.000 |
People are starting to look towards the future as negative, 00:17:50.240 |
It seems to me like this is sort of akin to what SACS was relaying about that 00:18:18.840 |
if you just look at like the cost of a hotel room, 00:18:23.740 |
are slowing down or tapping the brakes in any way. 00:18:28.180 |
This is where I get concerned about credit because it's not coming from wage 00:18:36.340 |
we're seeing continued month after month increases in consumer credit 00:18:43.180 |
this was the point I made a few episodes ago. 00:18:45.280 |
I don't think people are gonna slow down how they're living and how they're 00:18:56.300 |
I do think that people are anxious to reestablish some amount of 00:19:01.700 |
And this is really the first summer where everybody writ large can be 00:19:06.200 |
out and do the things that they were planning. 00:19:09.260 |
Last year was a little bit of a head fake and look, 00:19:13.880 |
50th anniversaries and weddings and all of this stuff that's happening. 00:19:17.840 |
And so I think people are really spending money. 00:19:30.960 |
I don't know why everybody thinks that there's been a downtick in demand. 00:19:37.740 |
Then it's just anecdotal and guess very subtle. 00:19:42.600 |
I actually think that the economy is pivoting on a dime here and it's, 00:19:47.400 |
it's starting to show up subtly in the numbers. 00:19:58.000 |
Only 10% of the country thinks we're on the right track. 00:20:03.280 |
Something like close to 60% of the country already thinks we're in a recession. 00:20:09.100 |
More Republicans than Democrats think we're in a recession. 00:20:11.860 |
even roughly half of Democrats think we're in a recession. 00:20:26.180 |
It's just that I think you have to dig beneath the service surface and you have to look at things like retail sales, 00:20:33.920 |
if you look back on all the number of times consumer sentiment has dipped that the correlation to spending patterns is so uniformly predictive as we think. 00:20:42.980 |
there's a slight positive correlation I remember, 00:20:49.820 |
So there's this weird preference falsification that happens. 00:20:53.580 |
what do you think is going to happen versus what do you do? 00:21:00.540 |
like less than a month of savings or whatever those numbers are, 00:21:04.160 |
despite all of the sentiment analysis and all of this stuff, 00:21:06.740 |
you would think that there'd be behavior change, 00:21:08.880 |
but mostly people kind of just live in the moment. 00:21:12.160 |
that that's partly because they don't have the structural support to save or other things. 00:21:18.560 |
But the reality is that most folks from what they say to what they behave, 00:21:27.380 |
We're seeing a slight downtick and we'll go to real estate next. 00:21:31.660 |
I found I was doing some research on gasoline because that's obviously where people getting hit the most. 00:21:36.220 |
The average household is now spending 5000 a year on gasoline. 00:21:43.860 |
but there's so many jobs available and there's so many people unemployed. 00:21:49.280 |
it feels like consumers can manage even this great headwind. 00:21:54.440 |
I think the average per capita income in the US is about $38,000 a year. 00:22:00.440 |
That works out to about 17 bucks and 50 cents an hour. 00:22:05.660 |
Roughly think about a person with that level of earnings. 00:22:10.160 |
The average household in the US has historically spent about a third on housing, 00:22:16.220 |
about 13% on food and about 16% on their car and their gas. 00:22:22.140 |
And they only have about 12% leftover for savings. 00:22:29.880 |
the 16% that they're spending on gas has jumped by 40% or 50%. 00:22:34.920 |
And even if housing prices take up a little bit, 00:22:37.480 |
all of a sudden your savings are gone and you're actually not saving. 00:22:49.260 |
but I think what I'm trying to highlight is that there is a distribution. 00:22:54.160 |
a small percentage of minority that have earned good income and are having 00:22:58.720 |
Like Chamath is talking about taking their travel. 00:23:02.020 |
There's outside spending happening with a segment of the economy. 00:23:07.300 |
which is that the majority of Americans are facing this really critical budget 00:23:11.260 |
crisis where their personal spending levels are now exceeding their income 00:23:15.580 |
And there's a critical need for credit and for personal debt and spending to go 00:23:21.740 |
what's going to drive significant risk in the next couple of months and 00:23:27.500 |
some of the numbers will look good because there's a segment of the economy 00:23:38.000 |
let me maybe tie a couple of these things together because I, 00:23:42.800 |
I think that we have been in a supply side recession. 00:23:51.540 |
Of taking all the excess money that's been put in, 00:23:59.440 |
And then that'll trigger a demand side recession because people will. 00:24:10.480 |
So the balance sheets of that segment of the population that is overspending 00:24:14.100 |
once their balance sheets really take the hit and they take a hard look at 00:24:21.340 |
we're still firmly in that first phase and I, 00:24:25.840 |
but the reason why I think that we're still in the first part of this 00:24:33.240 |
still have a lot of savings because of all the stimulus checks. 00:24:39.340 |
how will we know maybe is the better point when all of that excess 00:24:46.780 |
torn away from these people because of high prices, 00:24:55.640 |
they're more motivated to reenter the workforce. 00:25:01.140 |
which is when credit delinquencies really start to spike. 00:25:07.240 |
then they tap their credit cards and then all of a sudden they become delinquent. 00:25:12.140 |
you're probably now at a point where that first phase of the supply side issues are largely done. 00:25:27.440 |
There is no scenario where there's a bit to equities. 00:25:29.940 |
Why would you buy something that has lower earnings in the future? 00:25:33.440 |
Or why would you buy something that has a lower discount rate for profits in the future? 00:25:40.940 |
let's get to that because the piece we haven't got to. 00:25:43.140 |
So here's the river card is housing because people's homes are the majority of their wealth here in the United States. 00:25:48.740 |
And that I think will be the true indication. 00:25:55.240 |
that's when we're going to know we're in the end game. 00:26:03.040 |
I think we haven't seen the collapse of housing prices yet. 00:26:06.840 |
We're in a housing shortage and historically mortgages are still at, 00:26:18.240 |
If you look at this chart from our childhood on, 00:26:24.640 |
17% for their mortgages were well below the 50-year average, 00:26:38.540 |
this has been a very quick turnaround from two and a half percent mortgages all the way up to 5.3%. 00:26:52.240 |
almost 7% year over year and 3.5% month over month, 00:26:58.940 |
we've been selling over 5 million homes a month with the exception of the pandemic shutdown. 00:27:03.040 |
And that's this next chart you're going to see here. 00:27:06.640 |
I found which is existing home sales versus a 30-year fixed rate mortgage in our childhoods in the 80s. 00:27:13.140 |
We're selling two or three million homes a year as you see the rates. 00:27:16.340 |
That's the orange line come down massively from 17% and then 00:27:20.140 |
under 10% housing starts to flip people start flipping houses more and more often, 00:27:26.140 |
but we're still at that 5 million that numbers got to drop down to probably four 00:27:31.040 |
and then we would actually have some capitulation feedback from the panel. 00:27:36.540 |
there's an old saying that a recession is when your neighbor loses his job 00:27:44.540 |
And the reality is we haven't had the big job losses yet. 00:27:49.940 |
And the number of open Rex are getting closed. 00:27:52.440 |
And then there were those job loss numbers that just came out which were a little higher than expected. 00:27:56.540 |
So the job losses are starting but so far it's really been the step prior to that, 00:28:01.240 |
which is people are seeing their 401ks get destroyed stock markets down. 00:28:05.940 |
They're seeing their wages get destroyed by inflation food and gas prices being much higher. 00:28:10.340 |
So there's a really good reason why people are so sentiment is so negative out there people feel poor than they were before 00:28:16.840 |
and this could get worse like you saying Jason with their nest egg 00:28:21.540 |
That's the next shoe to drop just like the commercial real estate is the next shoe to drop. 00:28:25.640 |
But I think the really big question over the next six months is what sort of job losses do we see because that really is going to be the big determinant of of how hard this recession hits. 00:28:37.140 |
Yeah, I agree with you and it's it doesn't look like if we if we're losing 300,000 jobs a month, 00:28:42.540 |
it's going to take a long time for us to even get to one for one jobs. 00:28:53.940 |
I just don't see where all of a sudden there are these writ large mass layoffs. 00:29:01.840 |
If you if the headline in the Wall Street Journal said Walmart lays off 10,000 people, 00:29:14.640 |
We're raising prices and every supplier will have to pay a gas tax and a supplier tax. 00:29:20.340 |
So I just think that you're going to be right in the end. 00:29:23.940 |
I just think we're way too early in this process to get to that place where we did. 00:29:33.840 |
Ackman basically came out that tweet from a couple of days ago, 00:29:36.340 |
basically saying that listen inflation is still the big problem. 00:29:41.640 |
There's plenty of jobs and we're going to have a persistent problem with inflation. 00:29:45.840 |
I think he's kind of right and kind of wrong. 00:29:53.240 |
I think we have been in a supply-side recession meaning the day of the pandemic. 00:30:01.340 |
It's not as if you and I David didn't want to go out or use DoorDash or take an uber or watch a movie in a movie theater. 00:30:09.640 |
And so we found other ways in order to fulfill our demand. 00:30:14.540 |
you know did so well on behalf of the merchants that they served. 00:30:18.940 |
Well, that's why fortnight did so well, right? 00:30:23.340 |
But what went away was a supply and those incentives didn't come back and they're still not back. 00:30:30.840 |
This is the problem is the definition of a recession rights Chamath. 00:30:34.440 |
We're not the problem is just that most people don't understand that you can have a supply-side recession and a demand-side recession. 00:30:41.340 |
So well, I think I think I think like I guess Ackman is roughly right in some ways. 00:30:49.840 |
I think that we have an issue where we are going to transfer. 00:30:53.440 |
The supply-side issues that are driving inflation to average everyday consumers and their ability to buy things. 00:31:01.640 |
I still think that the average everyday consumers desire to buy things is what it was from before and on the margin is probably higher. 00:31:10.440 |
I do think at some point it will start to change when prices get high enough, but I don't think we've reached that point. 00:31:19.840 |
And the reason is because companies like the Walmart's of the world who see this demand. 00:31:25.440 |
On literally a real-time basis knows better than anybody else when and how much they can raise prices downstream into their supply chain. 00:31:33.840 |
So when you see something like this in the Wall Street Journal, I would just encourage us all to say they must see that demand is the same or better. 00:31:41.440 |
And so they're going to now push those price increases down to everybody else because now Walmart says here is an 00:31:48.340 |
opportunity for me to defend my earnings power. 00:31:50.840 |
And this is why I think we're in this first inning of this. 00:31:54.340 |
So I don't know whether Ackman is right or wrong, but I think we're in the early phases of a two-phase recession. 00:32:00.640 |
And I don't know what that looks like because I've never lived through one of those and I think in many ways it's the combination of the two and it was it was largely because of government failure government failure and how we reacted to the pandemic in hindsight. 00:32:18.740 |
We probably could have kept some supply online by understanding masking early on. 00:32:23.240 |
And then second, we exacerbated with failed government policy because we gave everybody trillions and trillions of dollars and we entered the capital markets and perverted it with another seven or eight trillion more. 00:32:35.640 |
Well, the consequences are still talking about giving stimulus. 00:32:39.740 |
Yeah, now in order to help people deal with so we are not we are not learning second. 00:32:48.540 |
If I had to basically put what we are all saying into a neat little bow, I would say there needs to be a multi-phased economic correction. 00:32:58.540 |
One that corrects the supply that we took out of the market during the pandemic one that corrects for all the excess money and then one that corrects for demand. 00:33:11.540 |
So the more misguided government policy we have the farther away from finding that equilibrium point. 00:33:17.940 |
It's going to take the more damage is going to be so sacks. 00:33:21.140 |
The Fed is obviously it's pretty much consensus. 00:33:24.140 |
They're going to do another .75 75 basis points later this month could be 50 basis points who knows there seems to be a couple of people saying that that might happen. 00:33:32.340 |
If that does happen and it feels like inflation is starting to top out. 00:33:38.440 |
You know starts to turn or do you think we're still going to see prices go up because it does feel like it was starting to bounce along the ceiling. 00:33:47.740 |
Where do you what do you think is going to happen? 00:33:48.940 |
If the .75 happens you're seeing the market rally today in the last few days, especially growth stocks because of this idea that the Fed is tackling inflation. 00:33:57.740 |
They're raising rates and the market is looking out six months and seeing the possibility of recession and they believe that is going to bring down demand and bring down prices and it could be what I just described would be a soft landing. 00:34:12.640 |
There's going to be a softly ending because of what you're saying, which is this is a multi-part. 00:34:19.640 |
I don't think that merely reducing demand is going to get us out of this. 00:34:28.040 |
And it's also as we just talked about a few minutes ago in employment problem because the businesses that need to grow that need to generate revenue cannot get the businesses that are dependent on people to do service jobs cannot get those jobs filled and so they cannot grow their revenue cannot make their profits and there's a trickling effect in the economy. 00:34:46.640 |
Of that, you know what we talked about that kind of job shift that job market shift that's happened. 00:34:51.640 |
So all three and so all three are just this like dislocation that's happened. 00:34:56.140 |
Totally right and it's unclear, you know, someone very smart. 00:35:00.640 |
I was talking to yesterday who is a former member of an administration said we just there's literally no way to predict we just don't because you think about the complexity of throwing three rocks in a pond. 00:35:16.440 |
How do those three rocks interact and how do the ripples interact is really what we're trying to predict and it's very hard to do. 00:35:21.740 |
I mean if you translate this into the markets for one second, I think what we've done since November of 21 and Nick you should play this clip because you know not to say, you know, we didn't see this coming but we really did, you know, we pointed to, you know, one of our friends and the person somebody else that we kind of know Bezos and Elon and we said when the two smartest capital allocators in the world start divesting. 00:35:46.240 |
They clearly understand and see things that the rest of us should pay attention to and to ignore it seems reckless or you're the clip and we'll be back in 30 seconds after the clip. 00:35:56.040 |
The two most important founders of our generation. 00:35:59.040 |
The two smartest people who have really consistently won Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have collectively sold more than 11 billion dollars of their holdings this year alone. 00:36:07.540 |
And if you can't take all of that and decide for yourself, what's right for you and your family, you're doing yourself a disservice. 00:36:13.740 |
I think it's important for me to never sort of like 00:36:16.040 |
be forced to tell folks whether I'm buying or selling although I'm willing to do it in moments where I think it's important, but I think it's really important to understand the context. 00:36:24.140 |
And so I think like these folks that like think derisively about individuals who are managing risk. 00:36:29.540 |
I think it's really naive and I think it's it creates a lot of missed opportunity for them as well. 00:36:35.740 |
If the smartest people in the world are now selling their core holdings that they told you they would never sell and you are not reconsidering 00:36:45.840 |
your position on things, you're either much smarter than them or you're being really really reckless. 00:36:53.140 |
That was November, you know, and at that moment I started a bunch of things in process which we can talk about at the end, but I also sold a bunch of stuff. 00:37:02.540 |
I started a process at that point and I sold a piece in December and then I just sold the last piece this week. 00:37:07.240 |
But then, you know, I sold a big piece of SoFi in that moment, but the point was more the following which is since 00:37:15.640 |
that clip to today, what we've gone through is a massive re-rating of the discount factor of these companies assuming nothing else changes, right? 00:37:28.140 |
We've not questioned whether earnings can change, you know, all we said is okay. 00:37:33.240 |
Well now we're going to take the discount rate up which means the value of this company is less than it used to be. 00:37:38.240 |
That's all we've done through all of this wealth destruction that's happened since November, but now the second shoe has to drop which 00:37:45.440 |
is if you believe that after this supply side issues are resolved, you go through a demand destruction phase. 00:37:51.440 |
The earnings of these companies are in real trouble and Jason you posted something I think about the social media companies and 00:37:59.940 |
So one of the first things to go in a recession is advertising. 00:38:02.740 |
If you're going to belt Titan at a company, where can you do it? 00:38:05.340 |
Well, you lay off employees, but you can't get out of your leases as we talked about in real estate, but you can cut your spending on marketing. 00:38:10.940 |
And so right now they it's looking pretty bleak for 00:38:15.240 |
Facebook because of the headwinds they have so the earnings could drop which means and by the way, the top ratio could be totally talked about. 00:38:25.340 |
We talked about that over the last few weeks, which is every time the market rallied oddly Facebook would be stagnant or trade off. 00:38:31.640 |
And we know when I called people on Wall Street, what they said was because you know, we think this is the company that has the most pressure on earnings. 00:38:38.740 |
I don't know if that's true or not, but they took every opportunity in rallies to trim their position in Facebook. 00:38:45.040 |
you have to remind yourself that is one of the 10 best companies in the entire world. 00:38:49.040 |
And so if you're going to go and question the earnings power of one of the 10 best companies in the world, 00:38:54.040 |
you may want to consider the earnings power of every other company that's not Facebook. 00:38:59.040 |
There are some unique things to the Facebook story. 00:39:01.040 |
They are facing a unique disruptive moment with Apple 00:39:07.540 |
Supposedly Google might follow suit with that, which would be super anti-competitive and also the surging TikTok taking 00:39:15.840 |
There's some good news in energy, which will then dovetail into politics and into this farming situation. 00:39:20.840 |
Friedberg Turkish government claims it just discovered almost 700 million metric tons of rare earth minerals. 00:39:28.640 |
If this is true, you guys probably know we use about 150,000 metric tons a year right now. 00:39:36.740 |
This is something like 4,000 years at the current demand and this would put them far beyond anybody else's Chamath. 00:39:44.640 |
I don't know if you've been tracking this news thoughts on another massive discovery of rare Earths. 00:39:51.040 |
What did you guys just have dinner dinner or surf? 00:39:57.040 |
There's an incredible restaurant here in Milan called DeSantis, which makes the best paninis you've ever tasted. 00:40:09.340 |
This is the Oracle sacks with the subliminal influence. 00:40:15.840 |
All right, Chamath just quickly on the rare Earths. 00:40:19.440 |
If this is actually true, what would this do? 00:40:22.840 |
And have you been tracking the situation because it does seem there's some truth to it. 00:40:26.840 |
Yeah, I think it's important to just take a step back and kind of look at this thing with not like complete skepticism, but just a little skepticism. 00:40:36.240 |
Not surprising that there's additional deposits all around the world. 00:40:39.440 |
Meaning we've always said rare Earths are not particularly that rare. 00:40:44.240 |
Is you know, which of the 17 rare Earth elements at what grade meaning at what percent concentration does it exist? 00:40:52.640 |
And then really importantly at what cost to extract it economically? 00:40:57.840 |
So meaning there's a ton of underdeveloped rare Earth assets in Canada, the US Africa, Australia, Brazil, Brazil. 00:41:04.240 |
They're just under underdeveloped because when you put all of these factors together, it's really tough. 00:41:09.340 |
So the government release says they're going to process like 570,000 tons of war. 00:41:14.040 |
That'll produce around 10,000 kilotons per year of rare Earths. 00:41:23.640 |
I would just sort of say it's really directionally great. 00:41:26.540 |
A lot more work needs to be done and more importantly, they need to release enough of this detail. 00:41:32.540 |
So folks like us and others can actually diligence it to tell you more accurately, but the press release was exciting. 00:41:39.740 |
This reminds me a little bit of the peak oil head fake. 00:41:44.140 |
You know, 15 years ago, everybody basically said we're not going to find more oil. 00:41:49.740 |
And then Norway is like, yeah, we just found more oil than existed previously and has been pulled out and the whole concept that the world's going to run out of oil is now gone. 00:41:57.540 |
So Freeburg, what is happening in science that we just can't predict what resources are available. 00:42:03.440 |
We know very little about what's inside the below the certain depth of the crust of the Earth. 00:42:13.640 |
But we're always surprised and we know very little about the distribution of those elements in the crust of the Earth and below the crust of the Earth. 00:42:22.340 |
I don't know the state of the art in engineering and mining very well, but you know, from a pure geophysics point of view, by some estimates, we have 10 billion years of energy reserves below the crust of the Earth that we can access in the form of nuclear reserves geothermal power and that's 00:42:43.440 |
excluding, you know, some of the, you know, the potential of some of these elements and what they can do and building a more sustainable energy economy. 00:42:50.540 |
Why is people so pessimistic when we keep surprising ourselves and more resources? 00:42:57.440 |
None of you guys were at the dinner that I did a few weeks ago where we had Steven Pinker come for dinner. 00:43:02.140 |
Yeah, read his book enlightenment now, or you could watch one of his videos on YouTube where he's got like all 60 slides and he highlights like, you know, humans have a tendency to focus on the risks. 00:43:13.240 |
And the concerns and the downsides and we miss the incredible optimism that is apparent as we actually look at the data of what's happening with our species and what we're doing on our planet. 00:43:25.340 |
You know, we have fewer wars than we've ever had murder rate per capita is lowest than it ever been. 00:43:33.540 |
I think everything's increasing and I think that the same is true in terms of, you know, scientific breakthroughs discovery and engineering our way to a more sustainable energy and food future. 00:43:43.040 |
Things about having you as a friend free Berg is your relentless optimism and your actual cool comp collective lack of anxiety in other amazing news. 00:43:57.840 |
We talked about the virtue signaling EU Parliament, you know, and Germany turning off their nuclear power plants and just securing the bag for Putin. 00:44:07.140 |
The EU Parliament flipped and they are now saying these virtue signaling knuckleheads. 00:44:12.840 |
Census and now they believe nuclear is green. 00:44:15.040 |
Also green according to the EU Parliament is natural gas. 00:44:19.640 |
So this to me feels like the beginning of the end for Putin and Saudi Arabia. 00:44:24.040 |
If you look at the US becoming a net exporter of energy, it's quite possible. 00:44:29.740 |
The EU could become that as well if they actually and this is a big if if they actually. 00:44:37.940 |
It could be the beginning of the end of what some people are calling the woke green movement and that's 00:44:42.640 |
certainly over this realization that to transition to the next car to the beyond the carbon economy is going to require continuing to invest in and support the carbon economy until those alternative solutions emerge and to have to dual track investing and I think that that's what we're seeing around the world in the United States in Europe now and Europe has always been farther way farther left in the United States in taking this point of view and I think now this has been a wake-up call for everyone and all it took was just a little bit of $6. 00:45:12.440 |
more gasoline and for people to personally suffer for them to change their virtual signaling nonsense. 00:45:19.740 |
Yeah, this is simply really educating the public. 00:45:22.340 |
Would you rather be beholden to Putin they pivoted because of who would you rather have nukes they pivoted from banning energy production to banning food production. 00:45:31.640 |
They're about to get there about to get well, so on the energy side, I did a in the group chat just a little breakdown on the math. 00:45:37.640 |
I think it may be interesting for people to understand but today globally 00:45:42.240 |
around the world every single country in the world that is involved in the oil business is able to produce exactly 1 million more barrels per day than we need. 00:45:54.940 |
So let's assume that we you know need a hundred million barrels of oil a day as a as a as a world to continue to do everything we want to do. 00:46:05.440 |
So we're right on the knife's edge by August. 00:46:08.940 |
We're going to go through a capacity increase. 00:46:12.040 |
In OPEC plus which is, you know, OPEC plus Russia, etc. 00:46:16.840 |
Saudi Arabia is going to go from 10 million barrels a day to 11 million barrels. 00:46:23.840 |
Russia has is is thought to be able to cut production if they feel pressure up to 5 million barrels a day without having any impact to their economy. 00:46:34.940 |
So JP Morgan, I think and Credit Suisse they did this sensitivity and accuracy. 00:46:44.440 |
They found that if Russia were to cut 3 million barrels of oil, so we would go from being oversupplied by 1 million to under supplied by 2. 00:46:53.940 |
The price of oil would go to about a hundred and eighty dollars a barrel. 00:46:57.140 |
If they cut 5 million, so the threshold at which their economy doesn't really get that impacted. 00:47:02.640 |
The price of oil could go as high as three hundred eighty dollars a barrel. 00:47:06.340 |
While you would say, okay, well, we just need to pump more oil from other places and this is the problem in all of. 00:47:16.340 |
We were destroying supply governments all around the world. 00:47:20.140 |
We're making it very difficult to generate the supply of nuclear to generate the supply of oil and to generate the supply of nat gas. 00:47:28.340 |
So Saudi Arabia says we can get to 12 million. 00:47:38.640 |
So to your point, all of a sudden we realize wait. 00:47:44.340 |
How do we allow all of the supply destruction to happen? 00:47:52.240 |
And if any of these things happen, if Russia decides to play hardball against Europe or America, we better hope that it's a mild winter because very quickly you can go from plus 1 million barrels to minus 2 in a heartbeat. 00:48:05.140 |
Yeah, and America's going to start and the last point on this about the Saudi Arabia. 00:48:09.340 |
Well Saudi Arabia is going to go from 10 to 11. 00:48:11.740 |
They have been at 11 million for some total of eight weeks in their entire lifetime. 00:48:16.340 |
If we look at this, I mean Americans also buying 20 to 25 mile per gallon cars that's got to end too. 00:48:22.640 |
And so personal responsibility is part of this. 00:48:26.040 |
The really interesting thing is China already has this plan their nuclear strategy with the Belt and Road initiative is to put 30 nuclear reactors in countries outside of China that they're trying to have influence in and they're building 30 nukes right now. 00:48:41.940 |
So China's just ultimately savvy and thinking big here about energy independence and we need to follow them other big anybody have anything else on the energy situation before we go to the farming situation. 00:48:57.740 |
Okay, so Dutch farmers are in revolt after a new proposed law to cut emissions on Tuesday Dutch lawmakers voted on proposals to slash emissions of pollutants like nitrogen oxide and ammonia. 00:49:11.040 |
They're targeting a 50% cut nationwide by 2030 livestock produces these emissions. 00:49:17.240 |
So the plan will likely force Dutch farmers to cut their livestock herds or stop working all together. 00:49:22.440 |
Farmers protested they put their tractors outside buildings. 00:49:26.540 |
They dump fertilizer 40,000 farmers gather last week in the central Netherlands agricultural Heartland to protest these plans and it's called shooting at them. 00:49:36.040 |
They got these tractors were doing some pretty gnarly things. 00:49:40.940 |
And stopping traffic and I guess it got heated and there were some shots were fired. 00:49:50.340 |
The protesters were unarmed as far as what I read. 00:49:53.640 |
But supposedly they were doing some dangerous maneuvers. 00:50:00.240 |
No, no, it's okay for the police to shoot working-class protesters if they're honking their horns, right? 00:50:06.040 |
I think they were threatening the safety of this is the other side of the story, Sax. 00:50:11.340 |
But according to the sources, they were using the tractors to threaten the police like physical bodily harm. 00:50:21.840 |
I mean, if you had a tractor coming at you to kill you and you're a police officer, I think it is proportionate to unload. 00:50:30.940 |
Wait, is it like the scene in Austin Powers where there's a steamroller coming towards Austin? 00:50:38.440 |
Jason's like, oh, they're using the tractor as a weapon. 00:50:40.740 |
That's like really just I'm I was you were not there. 00:50:44.940 |
I'm just telling you what was reported reporting. 00:50:47.740 |
What's reported and nobody knows if the reports are true. 00:50:50.140 |
So I think look, I think it's worth just highlighting because this is a really important. 00:50:53.440 |
This is the first time we've seen government action of this scale and the resulting kind of rebound effect on something. 00:51:00.740 |
That's really important humans use roughly between two and six percent of our energy on Earth every year to make ammonia. 00:51:10.640 |
We use to fertilize our crops around the world. 00:51:13.040 |
And if not for the invention of the Haber Bosch process, which you can read about in the book, the alchemy of air and the creation of ammonia as a synthetic fertilizer. 00:51:21.540 |
Humans would all have starved in the mid 20th century. 00:51:26.540 |
What we've learned over the years, however, is that when ammonia sits on the ground for too long, it volatilizes and it basically binds with oxygen and turns into nitrous oxide and goes into the atmosphere nitrous oxide is 300. 00:51:40.540 |
Times more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2. 00:51:48.540 |
So there has long been concerned about the overuse of fertilizer and the overproduction of ammonia that just sits on the ground for too long. 00:51:55.840 |
That ultimately creates this incredible greenhouse gas effect. 00:51:59.240 |
And so there has been talk in the United States under the Obama administration under multiple EPA's. 00:52:04.040 |
There was a Supreme Court ruling a few weeks ago that started to touch on whether or not the EPA has regulatory authority here. 00:52:12.640 |
Farmers generally put a lot of ammonia on the ground because they get higher yields out of their crop. 00:52:17.640 |
The problem is if that ammonia sits there for too long, it turns into a greenhouse gas. 00:52:21.440 |
And so regulating ammonia and regulating this nitrous oxide emission has been, you know, at the forefront of green, the green movement at the forefront of climate change as one of the ways to manage and reduce the effects of global warming from human industry. 00:52:35.940 |
And now, you know, the Dutch government has come out and started to do some of this regulation. 00:52:40.340 |
It's a little bit off because it comes from cows and we're seeing what happens. 00:52:46.040 |
Can we finally admit that it's the vegans fault now? 00:52:53.640 |
No, the ammonia production in the Netherlands is from the cows. 00:52:57.540 |
Just so you guys know, the Netherlands is the world's third largest dairy exporter. 00:53:02.040 |
They export three billion dollars a year of milk to the rest of the world, to other countries. 00:53:06.840 |
And so they have all these cows that are like densely packed and they're peeing everywhere. 00:53:10.240 |
Oh, that pee is ammonia and it's causing all of this problems. 00:53:13.940 |
So if you guys look at the United States corn farmers farm in the Midwest, 00:53:18.040 |
when it rains, the ammonia on their fields goes into the streams, 00:53:21.740 |
goes into the Mississippi River and goes into the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico. 00:53:28.840 |
They're all dead because when ammonia ends up in the water, it kills life. 00:53:32.540 |
And so there's this green algae and no fish and everything dies. 00:53:35.140 |
And so that's what the Dutch are trying to regulate. 00:53:37.040 |
And the EU generally has been trying to regulate is the removal 00:53:40.140 |
of excess ammonia in AG production and in right. 00:53:43.440 |
But I again, I still hear though that if if if if we ate less vegetables, 00:53:50.940 |
Most of the production of ammonia is used to make animal feed, 00:53:56.440 |
You could feed it olives as we know olives taste delicious, 00:54:00.540 |
But the issue here that is the issue here that the regulators hit the brakes too hard on these farmers 00:54:07.240 |
and they should have maybe had a more gradual landing for them is it's 00:54:10.040 |
been talked about for a long time and in the US there's just no way a lot is going to pass 00:54:14.440 |
because the US Senate is controlled primarily by rural states, 00:54:19.540 |
So you see a lot of you don't see a lot of bills that hurt farmers get passed in the United States 00:54:24.040 |
because the Senate is controlled by farmers that are elect. 00:54:26.740 |
Sorry senators that are elected by farmer by big farming communities and farming States. 00:54:32.240 |
it's been hard to get a regulation like this past where folks have tried to and talked about doing it around the world. 00:54:41.640 |
they're far more progressive and have this very kind of green hat on they're starting to take this sort of climate change action as they're calling it 00:54:51.940 |
you know does have the ramifications of destroying by the way, 00:54:55.240 |
one of the things they said is we expect and this will destroy the livelihoods of many dairy farmers in the Netherlands. 00:55:02.440 |
look all kidding aside said that they said that directly by the way and the dairy farmers are like F you you're not destroying our business for climate change. 00:55:10.340 |
which is has there not been some efforts to engineer how these plants themselves absorb nitrogen. 00:55:19.940 |
That's a totally right technology is going to solve this problem. 00:55:24.540 |
There are microbes that are being used to coat seed. 00:55:27.740 |
Those microbes can pull nitrogen out of the atmosphere directly. 00:55:34.240 |
There's a couple companies that are doing this really effectively. 00:55:39.740 |
There are other projects and there's very simple solutions. 00:55:43.140 |
We had a product called nitrogen advisor where we basically told farmers instead of dumping all the fertilizer at the start of the season. 00:55:49.540 |
So the fertilizer doesn't sit there and volatilize. 00:55:51.640 |
There's all these solutions that technology allows from software to bioengineering to these microbial solutions. 00:55:58.040 |
And so we're definitely I think going to resolve this. 00:56:01.940 |
these governments are in a frenzy to solve the climate change problem. 00:56:05.840 |
they're going to start to pass these laws that really hurt the livelihoods of, 00:56:10.940 |
How do you guys think something like this happens? 00:56:12.540 |
Because typically you would expect when a government is about to pass something like this. 00:56:17.040 |
There's sort of like a pretty fulsome review and all sides are brought together and there's working groups and all of this stuff. 00:56:23.740 |
And at some point you would talk to some scientists at other points. 00:56:26.440 |
You would talk to economists at other points. 00:56:28.540 |
You talk to the people who would be directly affected like the farmers. 00:56:32.440 |
Is it that the virtue signaling around sustainability and climate change is just so high that people just turn off? 00:56:39.540 |
Their brains or will like what is actually happening here? 00:56:42.940 |
I think what's going on is you got a bunch of technocratic bureaucrats in Brussels who don't know anything about farming or these people who live in the Netherlands. 00:56:51.240 |
You've been doing this for generations and they sit there in Brussels and they make up these completely arbitrary guidelines and requirements 50% by 2030. 00:57:06.040 |
authoritarian technocrat in the Netherlands then says, 00:57:09.640 |
we got to implement this and they pass some crazy law and they don't even think about the impact on these farmers. 00:57:27.140 |
And so you've got this global elite of technocrats who are willing to use authoritarian tactics. 00:57:32.240 |
They're appropriating their farms or taking them away. 00:57:36.440 |
which you're not saying it's not just technocrats. 00:57:39.540 |
global elite writ large have wrapped themselves around the sustainability blanket. 00:57:45.440 |
And they believe that that word justifies all kinds of bad unscientific, 00:57:54.940 |
They had just banned energy production in Europe. 00:57:58.940 |
This is making us dependent on Russia and authoritarians. 00:58:05.740 |
So they got smart on energy and now they're about to repeat. 00:58:09.240 |
Their same dumb mistake of basically prohibiting this area where they have an enormous natural advantage, 00:58:17.740 |
it's like they just keep making the same mistake over and over again. 00:58:22.640 |
I'm not going to question you on the science free bird. 00:58:25.340 |
But here's what I would say is I think there's a tendency on the part of these technocrats to think that the science is a lot more bulletproof than it actually is. 00:58:33.940 |
That is certainly what we saw with covid is we had these same sort of global elitist. 00:58:39.140 |
These technocrats who claimed to be health experts. 00:58:41.440 |
They made up all these lockdown rules that we talked about the beginning of the show. 00:58:52.240 |
They're willing to use heavy-handed authoritarian tactics. 00:58:54.940 |
And I just don't believe that the science of this, 00:59:00.140 |
Why is that the guideline who can prove that those are the exact right numbers and they're willing to use any tactics necessary to implement their crazy rules. 00:59:11.040 |
Let's assume that there's a technology transition possible that there are solutions that could be used. 00:59:21.340 |
creating this distortion in the market by saying you can't release 50% of the ammonia that you've been releasing forces a technological shift that otherwise would have taken longer in the market. 00:59:31.640 |
Do you agree that there may be a scenario here whereby you know governments can and should intervene and I'm not making the case personally. 00:59:40.640 |
There are alternative ways to make the dairy. 00:59:45.840 |
to produce right here's where I think you're going with that which could make sense, 00:59:49.940 |
You're saying there is a pollution externality here being created by the farmers. 00:59:54.840 |
exactly to basically internalize the externality. 00:59:58.940 |
So what you could do is gradually introduce some sort of permit system, 01:00:02.840 |
or a tradable permit system right where that would incentivize the creation of these technologies that you're talking about. 01:00:09.640 |
So you don't destroy the livelihoods of these farmers who've been doing it for generations. 01:00:14.040 |
So that would probably be the approach you'd want to take. 01:00:18.340 |
I think that I think that is what is going to happen around the world is that that sort of cap and trade or taxation system is going to get slowly rolled out for a lot of these externality costs in production and industry and agriculture particularly because there are technological alternatives and it will incentivize the switch to those alternatives because the alternatives will cost less than the taxes. 01:00:38.740 |
Is one of the problems here that these technocrats these professional politicians, 01:00:42.940 |
they don't actually have great strategic thoughtful, 01:00:50.340 |
looking at Germany their inability to see the writing on the wall of what building a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany and shutting down nukes would do. 01:00:59.640 |
They're just really bad strategic thinkers combined with this future. 01:01:05.540 |
they are influenced by these cultural elites. 01:01:16.040 |
They only associate with other members of the professional class who have, 01:01:23.040 |
They don't even interact with these Farmers just like the just like the legislators making covid rules. 01:01:29.540 |
The health experts never interact with Canadian truckers. 01:01:32.340 |
So there's a huge amount of class prejudice saying that these people just don't matter. 01:01:39.840 |
And if they don't like it will confiscate their farms. 01:01:43.540 |
the rest of you you're going to have to learn to eat bugs or tofu or Tempe or recycled excrement or whatever. 01:01:55.840 |
I had a roast beef as a beautiful roast beef. 01:02:02.340 |
It's going to become a meme after this episode. 01:02:10.440 |
I had prosciutto cotto with brie white truffle cream and lemon. 01:02:24.540 |
The Democrats embrace this agenda wholeheartedly because if we get all the voters who want to eat roast beef, 01:02:31.040 |
I'm pretty sure that's a super majority in this country. 01:02:33.740 |
The way to solve this freeburg is with the right economic incentives. 01:02:38.340 |
Why the Dutch government had to go and basically put thousands of farmers out of business. 01:02:43.840 |
What they could have done is actually created the tax incentive that allowed farmers to adopt some of these bleeding edge technologies when they were probably too expensive to make it economically equivalent that I mean, 01:02:59.840 |
So the reason why they don't do the obvious simple thing is class bias. 01:03:11.240 |
Okay, and who believe that they are more virtuous because of their desire to defend climate change. 01:03:21.140 |
We had there are 62,000 coal miners in this country. 01:03:24.840 |
Like this is a small number of people who were impacted. 01:03:27.140 |
We could just you know, basically give them severance or in a soft landing instead of the you know, 01:03:33.440 |
this crazy or or let them continue to do their job and egress.