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Eric Hovde: “We moved the headquarters of my banking organization out of…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

BRINGING COMMON SENSE BACK INTO GOVERNMENT WITH ERIC HOVDE

Published April 12, 2024 | Video Starts at 21:31

And then you have States like California that let the trial attorneys run amok. So, you know, We moved the headquarters of my banking organization out of Irvine, California to Salt Lake City. And it was amazing. Even if the employee barely showed up, could show up drunk. All the rest of you, you terminate them, you'd end up in a lawsuit with them. (21:31–21:39)

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Asserts that Eric Hovde's banking organization relocated its headquarters from California to Utah.

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“Over the last, oh geez, I hate to, you know, state kind of how old I am, but over the last, you know, 25, 30 years of, I bought probably oh…”
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“Goldman Sachs was packaging junk mortgage, selling them to their clients, but shorting the very stuff they were selling.”
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“Barney Frank admitted later, after they designed Dodd Frank, they said, well, this seems very favorable to the big banks and not too…”
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“It's small community banks and regional banks that provide the capital to our startup businesses and our small businesses.”
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“For a small business to go try to get a small business loan from a Bank of America or Wells Fargo or JP Morgan is a very difficult thing.”
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“It's our small community banking sector that makes us one of the most vibrant economies in the whole world.”
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“In the last three and a half years, we've added more debt to our economy and to this or to this government than our first 230 years of our…”
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“The interest costs on our debt now is the second largest expenditure after Social Security, above our Defense Department.”
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“The money supply grew by about 39%, the highest rate we've ever seen in our country's history.”
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“Real wages in America have gone down over the last three and a half years.”
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“We have $34 trillion of debt.”
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“We're losing 100,000 largely young people a year to fentanyl and the opiate crisis.”
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“Real wages, you know, your wage increase, you know, minus inflation, grew at the fastest pace. 8.2% under President Biden is declined by…”
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“Inflation is very difficult for [small businesses].”
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“Bernie Sanders pushed to pay people more not to work than to work during COVID.”
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“Joe Biden still letting government employees work remotely from home.”
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“In markets like California, where it's become unaffordable and why so many people are moving out.”
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“The only way we're going to get control of our healthcare system is if we let our free market system work.”
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“They love touting things like the UK health system. Well, guess what, you need your knee replaced, wait for two or three years if you're…”
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