A 40% stock-market crash? How AI hype could unravel—and how investors can brace for a selloff.

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  Investors worry the Federal Reserve might have gone too far in cutting interest rates
  
  MarketWatch - 29m

• How AI could be incorporated into nuclear weapons

  During this week's artificial intelligence summit in Paris, arguments were made that advanced AI is critical in the world's current threat landscape. Many militaries are exploring how advanced AI ...
  
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• How Trump’s trade wars could backfire on U.S. stock and bond investors

  In Trump’s first term, American businesses cut investment spending and industrial production slowed.
  
  MarketWatch - 21h

• As gold nears $3,000, here’s how its surge compares to bitcoin and the stock market

  Gold has been on an impressive run toward the $3,000-an-ounce milestone, with a years-long buying spree by central banks and economic uncertainty tied to President Donald Trump’s policies leading ...
  
  MarketWatch - 23h

• How low can European rates go?

  Central banks have been defining neutral interest rates as Bessent makes a brave bet
  
  Financial Times - 1d

• 2025 could be a renter’s market — but it won’t last, economists say. Here's how to take advantage

  The affordable conditions in the rental market in the U.S. might be short-lived. Here’s why, according to economists.
  
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  How Japan sparked Trump's 40-year love affair with tariffs

  As a young real estate developer in New York, Trump said a rising Japan was ripping off the US.
  
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• This Is How Democrats Can Counter Elon Musk

  Recklessness will not get us to a revitalized government, but neither will excessive caution and addiction to procedure.
  
  The New York Times - 4d
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  LinkedIn Is Testing an AI Tool That Could Transform How People Search for Jobs

  The company says artificial intelligence could help surface jobs that remain hidden from typical search queries.
  
  Wired - Feb. 5

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• Fed is ‘close but not there’ on getting inflation under control, Powell says

  Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the January consumer-price index data fit with an overall picture that the Fed is “close but not there” on getting inflation back to its 2% ...
  
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• Trump wants both lower interest rates and tariffs. Here’s how that could backfire.

  Economists say tariffs will make it harder for the Fed to lower interest rates — unless the U.S. economy enters a recession.
  
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• Elon Musk turns his sights to Social Security. Could he cut it?

  For tens of millions of Americans, Social Security is the most vital federal program of all
  
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• Hopes for more Fed rate cuts dim as Powell notes hot CPI means 'we're not quite there yet'

  A Fed interest rate cut won't be coming until at least September, if at all this year, following a troubling inflation report Wednesday.
  
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• Google says U.S. is facing a power capacity crisis in AI race against China

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• The New York Stock Exchange is launching an exchange in Texas

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  Elon Musk’s Attacks on CFPB Remove Obstacle to Building ‘X Money’

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