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Talking Points: Quotations from people in the news
- September 1, 2026: Vol. 13, Number 8

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Talking Points: Quotations from people in the news

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John D’Agostino, head of strategy at Coinbase Institutional: We’ve seen over 40 countries commit to buying bitcoin in some fashion for their national balance sheets. I’m seeing every day a deluge of new institutional investors that are interested in the asset class. … Every 40 to 50 years we create, as a global society, new stores of value, so I would posit to you that bitcoin has reached that threshold now.

 

Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of the venture capital firm Social Capital, commenting on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s views on artificial intelligence: “Let him scream in the sandbox about how the sky is falling, let him do it. What I and many other people will tell you, after decades of being in this industry, the sky is not falling.”

 

Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist of GMO, LLC, on his prediction the stock market will face a 70 percent decline in

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