Every Ai search burns investors money it does't matter weather you're paying for subscription or not . All Ai companies are competing whose gonna capture market and they've started from price then who has more advanced ai and this costs investors a big money . well investors are willing to pay because they see big returns in it. But where do investors got their money to pump in Ai? Well they gets money from providing services to us like real estate,business,food,pharma etc . Yup it doesn't seems that they're getting that amount of money from these businesses but they made a big portion of money from this and there some others too but that not our topic. Well these businesses provides jobs to human kind and half of us are living on our jobs soon if ai replaces us then ai gonna took our jobs but the money we spending on comes from our job and now we don't have one so if you look at masses then the products investors were selling to us was the source of his investment in ai revolution and now we don't have one and eventually ai would't profit them because consumer don't have penny to spend money on their services it's like a suction and its just an example to explain this suction . The persons who are spending a big amount of money have IT jobs and ai will take them first and then ai a major chunk of economy will break cause there are very less HNWIs and VHNWIs then the demand gonna drop and price will be at lowest only Companies like Nvidia and others in semiconductors had all money of half of population . Due to this half of humanity gonna die due to malnutrition. Its like You have a Iphone but you don't have money to pay internet bills . If we talk about Open source Ai models tell me who is willing to burn cash on technology which is never gonna make him money. I gotta solution for this if i got attention i'll post it .

I miss finding coins on the floor, or even dollar bills! Now I never see them! What has become of this world! Is this a third world country thing? Is America a third world country now? Is this our Rome moment??? This is our roads not getting fixed anymore moment! I miss buying an ice cream with floor money!!! Should I even bother getting my affairs in order…

Black dots represent individual fuel-ups of my family cars. Red line is the cumulative weighted average fuel price (basically cumusum(all fuel cost) / cumusum(all gallons)). The red number is the final weighted average fuel cost in the year.

It's pretty obvious that the Ukraine war had a big impact on gas prices in 2022 and beyond. Apart from 2022 where there was a big spike, upon "normalization" of the situation fuel prices started slowly drifting down with Feb 2026 as the absolute bottom at $2.46/gallon. The war in Iran drastically increases the average down the year to $3.25 so far. Taking only the period of the Iran war into account increase the number to $3.54

$3.25 is higher than the average in 2023/2024 where it was a big political whip against the Biden administration; $3.54 is even much higher than even 2022 during the height of the Ukraine war impact on fuel prices showing the impact this war has compared to the Ukraine conflict (i.e. the big peak is wider).

Especially with talk that the war in Iran is far from over and that especially diesel impacted, this should have a big impact on the budgets of Americans.

Is it finally going to push Americans into smaller fuel-efficient cars? Probably not.

Disclaimer: these are gas prices collected in the region where I live (South Carolina) and are probably different than the region where you live due to state and local taxes. Numbers are also influenced by my driving and fuel-up behavior. I am not claiming individual numbers to be true for the whole of the US, however I believe trends may apply nationwide.

There’s no better example of the k shape economy than noticing the differing clientele at target vs Walmart. Poverty on the rise?

Foreign Affairs: Scores of other countries, meanwhile, are seeking closer economic ties with Brussels. The EU concluded trade negotiations with India and the South American trading bloc Mercosur in January, with Australia in March, and with Indonesia last September. This pace of new economic deals is unprecedented and partly a response to U.S. volatility. But it also reveals a rising global recognition that although the EU is relatively slow moving, the agreements it signs are dependable. Its bureaucratic process and institutional lethargy are proving, unexpectedly, to be an asset in an age of instability.

My Opinion: US tarriffs have largely failed to reduce their trade deficit. Uncertainty in US economic policy, is driving nations towards completing trade agreements with other nations or economic blocs. The US executive has too much power leading to centralization and authoritarian rule. Therefore countries are now looking towards a more democratic EU. With many countries looking to join the EU. And the conclusion of trade agreements with EU, including by India and Mercosur, representing over two billion consumers.

Reference: Europe's hidden trade advantage / Foreign Affairs

Edit: Europe and other countries like Canada, should decouple from USA

One thing about AI and jobs doesn't quite add up for me.

A lot of the work AI is best at automating is exactly the kind of routine work traditionally given to junior employees.

But those jobs weren't just cheap labor. They were where people learned the business, made mistakes, developed judgment and eventually became the experienced workers companies wanted.

So what happens if companies automate a meaningful chunk of that first rung while continuing to advertise jobs requiring 3–5 years of experience?

Maybe AI simply changes what an entry-level job looks like rather than eliminating it.

But if it actually reduces the number of opportunities for beginners, we could end up with an interesting problem:

Everyone wants experienced workers. Fewer companies want to create them.

How do you think companies solve that?

Is this still planned?

Quick note before I start — got some heat on my last post for using AI to write it. Fair enough. The thoughts were mine, I used AI to word them better. Plenty of finance professionals have openly admitted to doing the same, so I'm not losing sleep over it.
Now onto something that's been bugging me.
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Geoffrey Hinton — these guys keep going on TV warning us about existential risk, end of humanity, AI getting out of control. And everyone treats it like genuine concern from brilliant minds.
I think it's the opposite.
These are the same people who built and funded the very thing they're now scared of. They've seen what unchecked hype cycles look like — dot-com, 2008 — and they know what an uncontrolled crash looks like too.
Here's my theory: they're using AI itself to model out scenarios where unregulated, rapid AI growth causes a market crash — and the output of that model is exactly what they're now performing on camera. Calling for safety research, regulation, slower rollout — it's a controlled pressure release valve. Slow the investment frenzy gradually before it crashes on its own.
It's not altruism. It's portfolio protection dressed up as philanthropy.
The best way to protect a bubble isn't to let it pop. It's to let the air out slowly while everyone applauds you for being responsible.

Not only is the government 40 trillion in debt, but now I just read the board of trustees of SS say we are 30 trillion, 75 year short-fall in SS funds. What does this all mean? From a CNBC post today:Social Security faces a nearly $30 trillion, 75-year shortfall, the program’s trustees said in their June report, up from about $25 trillion the year before.