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Climate and business reporter at POLITICO's E&E News. Also a dad, cyclist, PEN Guild supporter and lapsed Minnesotan.
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The full exchange and the preceding presentation that prompted it are available here. www.youtube.com/live/I1PE8xR...
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Marvi Matos Rodriguez, an engineering director at Boeing, asked a RAND advisor at the NSB meeting what would happen to the US "if we actually reduce the investments in R&D."
The advisor's answer was unequivocal: China will become the world's leading scientific power.
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Buffett reluctantly supports DOGE, citing the need to shrink the growing gap between US revenues and expenses.
"It's a job I don't want. But it's a job I think should be done. And Congress does not seem good at doing it."
Yet DOGE hasn't balanced the budget either. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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⚡ Buffett calls for centralizing electricity regulation ⚡
The U.S. "needs incredible improvement, rethinking, redirection, even to some extent, in the grid," he said.
"It doesn't work so well when you get 48 or 50 jurisdictions that each has their own way of thinking about things."
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Buffett raises concerns about Trump administration efforts to devalue the dollar. www.politico.com/news/2024/04...
"We wouldn't want to be owning anything that we thought was in a currency that was really going to hell. And that's the big thing we worry about with the United States currency."
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Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett comes out against President Trump's tariffs.
"Trade should not be a weapon," he said. "It's a big mistake, in my view, when you have 7.5 billion people that don't like you very well, and you got 300 million that are crowing in some way about how well they've done."