He’s the most famous person on the country’s leading business network.
I know he’s a bit of a clown but he’s as connected as anyone and kinda famously predicted (pointed out?) “these firms are gonna go out of business” about the big banks 6 months before they all started collapsing, not because he’s a brilliant futurist, but because the CEOs of the banks were calling him and telling him the banks were on a knife’s edge.
My point isn’t to defend him (although I do think he’s better than popular opinion gives him credit for) but rather to point out that he’s probably parroting some very key people with this.