What podcasts say about Skanda Amarnath
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What Skanda Amarnath has said on podcasts
20 statements · 3 positive · 12 negative · 2 mixed · 3 neutral
Democrats have a path to sustained Senate competitiveness.
“there is a path ahead for how they could sustainably stay competitive in the Senate”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 5:18
Divided government tends to produce legislative gridlock.
“divided government tends to be gridlock”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 7:16
Divided government makes crisis policy harder to pass.
“It becomes harder to pass policy in a crisis.”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 7:20
Changing executive tariff authority would require substantial Republican cooperation.
“I suspect that it's hard in the context of war to change sort of executive action. Tariffs are more interesting”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 8:14
Data-center construction power mainly resides with state and local governments.
“Most power related data center construction resides at the state level, state and local, not federal.”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 13:54
Data-center construction will be driven more by economics than politics.
“what will matter most there is economics more than the politics”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 17:47
Markets are increasingly rewarding capital efficiency over raw AI capital expenditure.
“we're seeing some of that, some of the rewarding of capital efficiency over just raw CapEx”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 18:14
Political opposition creates new constraints for hyperscalers and data-center builders.
“there are new variables for a lot of the hyperscalers a lot of sort of the companies that are really kind of leading this sort of construction effort to kind of grapple with that they did not have to deal with before”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 18:54
Pro-data-center governors have had to change their political approach.
“even those who are the most favorable towards this type of activity have had to, like... read the room, recognize that things have to change”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 19:20
Hyperscaler AI capital expenditure is economically a cost.
“The CapEx is a cost”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 21:24
A Fed vacancy may remain unfilled through Powell’s term because of Democratic veto points.
“I think it's going to be really hard to fulfill that by the end of the term because you're going to have to get through a lot of Democratic sort of veto gates of sorts. So you have just like that math gets very difficult and so probably won't get filled.”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 23:16
Democratic Senate gains could influence appointments for four to six years.
“they're going to be there for a while. And that itself just tilts. things for at least, yeah, another four or six years”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 24:01
A partisan Federal Reserve Board would be undesirable.
“it really wouldn't be for the best if the Fed board did not take on a partisan character”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 24:20
AI capital expenditure slowdowns tend to occur abruptly rather than linearly.
“if you did see AI CapEx really cool off, these things tend to not be very linear. It tends to be more binary. It's on or off.”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 32:51
A cooling AI boom is unlikely to be offset quickly by a major housing boom.
“if the tide comes out, I'm not as convinced that there is going to be some big housing boom that offsets it”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 33:17
AI-sensitive spending segments approach eight percent of U.S. GDP.
“It's something getting close to 8% of GDP.”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 33:45
Inflation may remain near three percent longer than expected.
“we might be stuck around three a lot longer than is currently suspected”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 36:17
A democratic socialist is unlikely to lead the 2028 Democratic ticket.
“My prognostic is probably not.”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 36:26
“I think Ossoff is a pretty reasonable favorite right now, but it's really early.”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 37:25
“I suspect Ossoff is right now the frontrunner, but there are a lot of people who are the frontrunner coming right out of interms. That could just change very quickly.”
Open the episode · The Macro Implications of the Blue TsunamiListen at 37:55
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