Economy

I doubt it's that high. AI has frozen companies. Productivity must be plunging, but they can't fire because they don't know what they'll get if they soon need to rehire, and they don't hire because applicants lack AI experience.

Meanwhile tariffs have clipped consumer spending hard stop.

Meanwhile Wall Street theories on AI abound. Growth forever to money sink. Who will win? Does anyone win if it never makes money? Large Cap tech is betting hundreds of billions - essentially the whole company, no matter how large, can have a date with bankruptcy if AI doesn't pay off on time. A parallel is Ford and Honda with EV's. Said to eat $50 billion each to wind it down now that it's not selling. The infrastructure was never there to fuel the wheels on the road.

Too much innovation too fast in too many areas. Consumers can't afford it. Tech, tech, tech, credit, credit, credit. Mortgage. Car payments.