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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
30 May 2023 Acquired Lockheed Martin
“There are exceptions to all these things, but it doesn't solve for making sure that America stays globally competitive.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- evaluation
- Recorded
- 30 May 2023
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Lockheed Martin
Transcript context
…This almost happened. The government didn't let Lockheed go out of business in the 1970s. This was right as the Kennen satellite project was getting going. We could not let Lockheed go out of business because we needed that. Right. A market cures a lot of problems like price, serving the best product to customers. There are exceptions to all these things, but it doesn't solve for making sure that America stays globally competitive. The government has to put their hand on the scale in all these different ways in this market for that reason. Yup. Globally competitive is an interesting way for it to be safe and globally dominant. Let's put it that way.…
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