A productivity boom and a classic credit crisis are not competing forecasts. They can be two sides of one event — and the boom can be part of the mechanism that produces the collapse.
The firm that bills by the hour cuts its own revenue when output per hour doubles. So does the worker on a fixed salary — one level down, same division problem.
Productivity is rising and the labor share just hit its lowest reading since 1947. The dividend is real. It is not being shared.
Everyone is clamoring that AI will soon cost more than the engineers it replaces. Most don't understand what is unfolding
What a universal home robot actually does to the household isn't eliminate the argument. It relocates it... usually to worse ground.
The world's central bank just put a name to it... "shadow borrowing." The same move is running through three markets at once. And the person standing at the end of the chain is you.
The largest IPO in history prices a trillion dollars of unproven optionality as if it were already earned.
The 1948–1973 economy is the control group for everything we're about to do with AI.
How AI deployment reveals power structure, not value and what would change if it didn't.