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they're still focused on making sure there's clean air and land and basically clean air, land, and water while growing the economy. Now assuming this is all true and assuming that the regulations they got rid of were things that really were slowing down our energy business, I'd expect it would take at least three years for the reduction in all these regulations to really show up in the economy. S…
← Previous segment →didn't expect. Anything could happen. But the promise of what the third year of Trump's administration looks like, I don't think I've ever seen a more optimistic set of variables coming together. I mean, this looks really strong at this point.
Well, Trump is using the government's control over federal funding for college research to put pressure on colleges. So Columbia already lost 400 million in grants because the government says they're too anti-Semitic or they're allowing too much anti-Semitism. And there are apparently hundreds of schools like this. Federal grants for every kind of research: educational, medical, agriculture, all kinds of research. And apparently in '21, the last time we have numbers for it, the federal government gave 49 billion for federal research and development funding. 49 billion to colleges, which again was a big part of their ent
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ire funding. Now what do you think we got for those 49 billion? Are you aware of anything that's coming out of college research that's changing anything? Because you know what I worry about is that we got nothing for it, and that it's just a bunch of people who are rushing to publish any kind of science they can, because I don't think we say okay, we'll only give you this money if your research i…
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