George Hahn
speaker
3,414 appearances
44 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3d ago
George Hahn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's more compelling and lucrative to be a catastrophist.
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History, however, is on the side of optimists.
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Any analyst, author, academic must adjust for history and ask, what could go right?
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And optimism is a prerequisite for entrepreneurs.
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No business I've ever started at the moment of inception made any sense until it did or didn't.
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The only way to predict the future is to make it, i.e.
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summon the irrational optimism necessary to advance, despite the risks, into the unknown.
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Macroeconomic conditions supply abundant reasons to catastrophize.
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What keeps me up at night?
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Answer, tariffs, Iran, inflation, the national debt, treasury yields, a stock market that's seven companies, consumer sentiment, and the K-shaped economy.
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Despite all this, there is always cause for optimism.
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And wealth creation in the U.S.
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is a bright spot.
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The wealth flowing to Wall Street and Silicon Valley drives an inequality narrative, but that obscures American economic dynamism.
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For their new book, The Everywhere Millionaire, economists Owen Zedar and Eric Zwick analyzed IRS and Federal Reserve data, finding that more than half of the rise in income among the top 1% since 1985 came via pass-through businesses.
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That's IRS speak for firms, most of them privately held, where the profits pass through to the owners who pay taxes on those profits through their own personal tax returns.
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The growth in so-called everywhere millionaires isn't an accident, but the result of a policy choice.
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The 1986 Tax Reform Act lowered individual tax rates below the corporate rate, creating a loophole that allowed business owners to structure a business as a pass-through to pay the lower individual rate.
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In 2024, Treasury researchers estimated that S-corporations, a popular pass-through structure, pay about seven percentage points less in federal income tax than they would if organized as C-corps.
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In news that won't surprise anyone, the U.S.
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