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🚨🇺🇸 THE AI SELLOFF COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A MUCH BIGGER FINANCIAL CRISIS I spoke with financial analyst David Lin as some of the biggest names in technology were getting absolutely hammered. Alphabet lost roughly $500 billion in market value in a single session. Intel plunged nearly 30%. Amazon is spending tens of billions on AI infrastructure while burning through cash. But David thinks the real danger is hiding in the debt market. He walked me through CoreWeave, an AI cloud company carrying an estimated $50 billion in debt, with some borrowing costs reaching 15–16%. Its projected capital spending this year is roughly THREE TIMES its expected revenue. And now, according to the Financial Times, Anthropic could receive a junk credit rating after its IPO despite planning more than $800 billion in computing investments through 2045. David explained how this could unravel: financing dries up, data center construction slows, chip orders fall, and suddenly the companies supplying the AI boom get dragged down with their customers. We also discussed China's tech collapse, Bitcoin and gold falling alongside stocks, and the Federal Reserve's increasingly uncomfortable position. Oil prices are keeping inflation elevated. A weakening technology sector could mean layoffs and slower growth. The Fed may soon have to choose which problem to confront. David isn't predicting that every AI company will fail. He thinks the technology will survive, just as the internet survived the dot-com crash. BUT he believes the era of borrowing almost unlimited amounts of money to build AI infrastructure could be coming to an end. @davidlin_TV

🇺🇸 America could be heading toward a crisis bigger than anything we've seen in generations. I spoke with Neil Howe, the historian behind The Fourth Turning, as reports of a constitutional confrontation in Poland were unfolding live. What made the timing extraordinary was everything else happening around us. The AI selloff is accelerating. Another war with Iran is looking increasingly possible. Political tensions are rising across Europe, and the US is heading into another bitterly contested election. Neil has spent decades studying what happens when societies reach moments like this. He sees three major dangers: a devastating financial crash, a breakdown of political institutions, and a major international war. But what really caught my attention was his explanation of how they feed into one another. An economic collapse can destroy public confidence. Political paralysis can invite foreign aggression. And a war can push an already fragile financial system over the edge. We discussed America's deep political divisions, the possibility of rival centers of government emerging during a constitutional crisis, and why countries that have experienced war are taking civilian preparedness far more seriously than Americans. Neil also raised something I hadn't considered enough. We're building an economy increasingly dependent on AI, enormous data centers and interconnected infrastructure, while the power grids and communications networks supporting it remain vulnerable to disruption. His concern isn't that catastrophe is inevitable, but that Americans have grown accustomed to assuming major crises happen somewhere else. And as we spoke, the incoming reports of a possible coup in Warsaw was a reminder of how quickly political confrontations can escalate. The next great crisis may not arrive as one dramatic event, but as several crises hitting at once, each making the others harder to contain. @HoweGeneration

🇮🇱🇮🇷🇺🇸 Dozens of Israeli jets and refueling tankers flew 800 miles toward Iran on Monday, and some US officials suspect it was bait to make Tehran fire first An Israeli strike reportedly planned for October 10 was called off over Trump's objection to restarting before the midterms, and if Iran can be goaded into striking first, Netanyahu never has to convince Washington of anything. Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute says munitions have moved into Israel in the last couple of weeks, and he warns that if Trump pulls back at the last minute to cut a deal, especially after a midterm loss, the danger flips: "The Israelis will preempt, not the Iranians, not the Americans, but a deal between the US and Iran and strike and try to blow it up." A messy coalition count after October 27 keeps Netanyahu prime minister and his hand on the trigger well past the vote. @tparsi