In this episode, Scott Becker covers eight key stories, including market reactions to potential tariff changes, the sudden passing of Samsung’s co-CEO, reflections on the Affordable Care Act’s 15th anniversary, and insights on IRS budget cuts.
Chapter 1: What stories are being followed today?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today, we're going to discuss eight stories that we're following today. And thank you for listening to the Private Equity Podcast. First, the markets surged yesterday in hopes that President Trump would ease up on tariffs on the tariff war. That's the basic concept that people are looking at. We'll see how this plays out.
Chapter 2: What happened to Samsung's co-CEO?
We'll talk in a second about what the markets are doing today. Second, the co-CEO of Samsung died suddenly yesterday of a heart attack at 63. He is widely attributed or given credit for building Samsung into the world's largest and most successful or most largest electronics company and crazily successful.
Chapter 3: What reflections are there on the Affordable Care Act's anniversary?
We had heard recently of another death of another person, somewhat middle-aged and always sobering to those of us that are, of course, middle-aged, to see people die of these heart attacks. Third, this weekend, there are a lot of tweets, particularly from President Obama, on the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. And this is really fascinating, and it's really hard to grade.
Chapter 4: What are the positive impacts of the Affordable Care Act?
There are a lot of positive comments and a lot of negative comments. On the glass is half full side, it's helped a great deal to reduce the number of people without coverage and insurance. So that's generally viewed, I view that very much as a positive. We've gone from about 20% of the population without coverage is about 10% of the people without coverage.
Chapter 5: What challenges remain with healthcare access?
On the half-empty side, the glass-empty side, it's added tremendous power to the insurance companies and has helped, not helped, the supply problem of providers and clinicians. And so at the end of the day, I'm a believer we need coverage for all Americans, but that access and supply is the much bigger problem that politicians don't talk about or address really whatsoever.
Dr. Daniel Choi, a brilliant spine surgeon, shared thoughts this weekend on Twitter, reflecting the ACA, and I thought his thoughts were brilliant on it. Fourth, Rick Newman, a Yahoo Finance writer, editor-in-chief that we watch or read a decent amount, has a good piece on Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, this weekend, and he criticizes their
the concept that cuts to the IRS will hurt tax collections and further increase, not help the federal deficit. Here, even though I don't like the IRS, I don't want the IRS to have more people auditing and all that kind of stuff, he's probably largely right in his perspective on it. Fifth, the markets today, at least midday, are relatively flat. We'll see how they end too early to tell. Sixth,
Two upcoming webinars coming up. First, both at Becker Private Equity Business with Sean Carson of Sales Empowerment Group. He does a lot of work for private equity-sponsored companies there on go-to-market strategies, growing revenues, and a lot more. That's April 9th. May 7th, I'll do a solo webinar on 20 business partnerships. We hope you enjoy that.
To register for either of those, please feel free to text Scott Becker at 773-766-5322. Seventh, four of the companies that jumped yesterday, more than double digits at least, Tesla having a bit of a recurrence, Rebound, Tempest AI, Wayfair, and Carvana all jumped 12% to 15% yesterday. Finally, eighth, the Walt Disney Company company
despite one of my colleagues and her husband taking all five kids there, remains down year to date. Disney's down about 10% year to date. And this is despite my colleague partner taking five of her sons there to Disney World recently, or Disney Cruise, one of the two, still down about 10% year to date. Those are eight of the stories that were following today.
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