www.lesswrong.com/posts/xCWiFGezwMPswZ6Ea/is-gdp-a-kind-of-factory

This phrase conflates PIF's commitment with the size of the fund itself.

SoftBank's own October 14, 2016 press release said PIF would consider investing up to USD 45 billion in the SoftBank Vision Fund, while "the overall potential size of the Fund can go up to USD 100 billion." In other words, $45 billion was the planned Saudi contribution, not the size of the Vision Fund.

SoftBank then announced on May 22, 2017 that the Vision Fund had reached a first major closing with over USD 93 billion of committed capital. That directly contradicts the article's description of it as "The $45 billion SoftBank Vision Fund."

So the statement is incorrect as written: it understates the fund's size and misattributes one investor's commitment as the total size of the fund.

The post attributes a nationwide estimate (“US residential real estate value”) to Davis & Palumbo (2006).

However, the Federal Reserve’s abstract for the paper (and the paper’s own title) makes clear the study is about “Large U.S. Cities” and that the 50%/32% figures are computed by “averaging across the cities in our sample”—i.e., across 46 large U.S. metropolitan areas, not the entire U.S. housing stock.

So the quoted sentence is incorrect as written: it overstates the geographic scope of the Davis & Palumbo estimate (metro-sample average vs. nationwide).