Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

Former CEO on a gap year Joined June 2011

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

10 months ago

I might be too pessimistic. After recent Goldilocks economic reports, maybe we don’t get either a hard landing or soft landing. Maybe we get NO landing.

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

10 months ago

Wall of worry: Inflation falling, yet Fed says too slowly to be done hiking rates…. Economy and payroll growing, yet economists (and the yield curve) say recession is coming. Conditions are worrisome BUT: aren’t they consistent with what you’d expect heading for a soft landing?

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

10 months ago

Do you think Putin is thinking, “I’m 70 years old and fabulously rich. Why the hell do I need this aggravation?”

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

a year ago

Does this man have the temperament to be President? Disney is lucky he doesn’t have the launch codes……

The New York Times @nytimes

a year ago

Does this man have the temperament to be President? Disney is lucky he doesn’t have the launch codes……

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

a year ago

The battery just ran out on my HP12C. Never gave it much thought, but I’ve used this calculator for 40 years. Still functional, looks current. Bet not many other consumer electronic devices out today will have that kind of run!

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Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria

a year ago

On this week's GPS, @ 10am & 1pm ET Sunday on @CNN: an important conversation about the banking system with @lloydblankfein

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

a year ago

A few banks may have issues like SVB, but only a few. Govt actions removed reasons for bank runs. Biggest banks have much tougher regulation and stress testing. Anxiety and volatility high, but sharply lower interest rates, fed likely on hold, are strong positives for markets.

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

I imagine Jay Powell and the rest of the Fed Governors are right now sitting with a thesaurus trying to find the word that means “pause” or “not pause,” depending on who’s listening.

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

Seems EVERYONE negative on the mkt with sticky inflation, more rate hikes, other bad stuff ahead. Yet…inconceivable for all pundits to be right, but often all are wrong. Positives may be lurking. Fed pause, Ukraine truce, China lockdown end, etc. Sentiment can shift suddenly.

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2 years ago

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

This is one of those trading days where if you had the news in advance (above-expected CPI), you REALLY would have lost a lot of money.

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

Reading the news, it seems like half the country is suffering from floods, the other half from drought. The Romans would have built aqueducts!!

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

No shock that the pace of change is picking up at the PGA. You don’t have to care a whit about golf to draw the broader economics lesson: that competition drives innovation!

New York Post @nypost

2 years ago

No shock that the pace of change is picking up at the PGA. You don’t have to care a whit about golf to draw the broader economics lesson: that competition drives innovation!

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

Hats off to the P/E lobby! After all these years and budget crises, the highest paid people still pay the lower capital gains tax on earnings from their labor. I agree their activity helps the economy, but so does the labor of truck drivers, teachers and construction workers!

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2 years ago

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

This Supreme Court is more activist than any we've had in decades, something conservatives have traditionally railed against. But I guess conservatives don’t mind this type of activism.

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

Dial back a bit the negativity on the economic outlook. If I’m managing a big company of course I’m prepping for the worst. But the economy is starting from a strong place, with more jobs than takers, and is adjusting to higher rates. Riskier times, but may yet land softly.

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

Inflation fighting is mostly the fed’s show, but there’s stuff for rest-of-gov to do, e.g: expand immigration to increase labor force; subsidize child care for labor participation; eliminate some tariffs; provide less hostile regulation for energy sourcing and transportation….

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade is not just bad; it’s Dred Scott bad.

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

Companies shud take policy positions core to their biz, and have a responsibility to advocate for policies that protect their employees and fight those that hurt them. But forcing companies into the “blue” or “red” side of every divisive issue will hurt our economy and country.

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

In 1967 Florida granted special governance and tax status to Disney World. Maybe that was bad policy. But to revoke it because @GovRonDeSantis objects to Disney’s position on unrelated legislation smacks of govt retaliation for exercising free speech. Bad look for a conservative.

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Lloyd Blankfein @lloydblankfein

2 years ago

As shown by Russia’s war that unites the West and China’s zero-covid policy that crashes its economy, hard to get dictators to back off policy mistakes even when folly is clear. Our free speech/democratic/free market system is messy, but forces us to confront reality and adapt.