What Lies Beneath: An Updated Outlook on the Economy and Investing
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The episode discusses the implications of the AI boom on the economy and investing outlook.
The summer of 2026 has been dominated by the AI boom. Some fear that AI is advancing too quickly for thoughtful regulation. Others worry that end-user revenues will lag too far behind massive capital spending and fast-growing debt. From an economic perspective, AI is pure momentum, generating huge profit gains, adding to investment spending, boosting upper-income consumer spending via a wealth effect and coinciding with very solid gains in productivity.
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