How's the stock market doing, minus AI?
The episode explores how the stock market's recent surge is increasingly disconnected from the broader economy, driven by a narrow set of AI-focused tech giants while most other sectors struggle under rising interest rates and inflation. Despite widespread consumer financial strain, AI in
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