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Learning not to trust the All-In podcast
Gross incompetence or purposeful deception?
Putting aside the comment about quantitative easing, which feels irrelevant, I left his office and went straight to the Department of Commerce’s website, where the Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes GDP estimates. The claim that makes up the entire talking point of this initial segment of the show is a misreading of the data that I, a random nonexpert guy, noticed and disproved in ten minutes of research and writing this up. In my first and only 15 minutes of watching, Chamath’s confidence in making this false claim, coupled with his co-hosts’ complete lack of critical pushback, suggests to me that these kinds of mistakes happen often enough to where these guys’ content isn’t worth consuming.
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