Last updated Nov 29, 2025
Chamath @ 01:21:32Inconclusive
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At some future point, the Florida state reinsurance backstop will prove effectively insolvent after major climate/insurance losses, leading to federal intervention on the order of roughly $1 trillion to support or backstop coastal real‑estate–linked insurance obligations in the U.S.
So the federal government's going to be asked to step in and cover that thing at some point, and then someone's got to write $1 trillion check. I mean, you know, you want to complain about sending 100 billion to Ukraine and Israel. Wait until most of the country has to underwrite coastal communities real estate values.View on YouTube
Explanation

As of November 30, 2025, nothing close to a $1 trillion federal bailout or backstop of coastal real‑estate–linked property insurance has occurred. Existing federal programs dealing with housing and catastrophe risk (e.g., TARP at $700 billion in 2008 for financial institutions, the Treasury’s commitments to Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac around $200 billion, and the long‑running National Flood Insurance Program with debts in the tens of billions) are far smaller in scale and predate Chamath’s 2023 prediction rather than being new responses to a Florida‑triggered insurance collapse. (en.wikipedia.org)

In Florida specifically, the state’s Reinsurance to Assist Policyholders (RAP) backstop has not blown up; instead, it has been under‑used. Florida lawmakers actually reduced the RAP program’s authorized funding from $2 billion to $900 million and pulled back about $1.1–2.1 billion in unused reinsurance support, while also repealing the separate FORA program—moves that lessen, not socialize, the state’s exposure, and there has been no federal assumption of those obligations. (insurancebusinessmag.com)

Because Chamath framed this as happening "at some point" in the future, with no explicit time horizon, and the hypothesized trigger event (state reinsurance insolvency leading to a ~$1T federal rescue) has not yet occurred—but could in principle still happen over coming decades—the prediction cannot be called right or definitively wrong at this time. It remains inconclusive (too early).