productivity
Across markets and industry, voices wrestled with whether AI is truly lifting productivity. On Monetary Matters with Jack Farley, Ed Zitron argued AI has not improved productivity or GDP outside data centers and GPUs, framing the boom as financialized and fragile rather than an economic accelerator 1. Walter Bloomberg relayed Barclays’ view that a sustained AI-driven productivity acceleration could push long-term Treasury yields to 6% by raising the economy’s speed limit and rate expectations 2. In coal mining, CLEAR COMMODITY NETWORK guests described targeted, operational productivity gains from AI/computer vision via reduced downtime and higher tons per man hour, though they said concrete proof points are still early 3.
From the window to Oct 3, 05:30 ET — this window's take is still to be written.
Where the voices land
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Falling
- DLDaniel LacalleFalling Expects productivity to stagnate while asset prices soar. “Asset prices soar while real take-home pay and productivity stagnate.” Open the post The sovereign debt crisis will worsen because go… · 10 Oct
Sharply rising
- JIjim iuorioSharply rising Expects AI to drive massive, long-lasting productivity gains, bigger than the internet era. “I've come around to thinking that ai really is this massive massive disruptive force that's going to be here for a long long time” ▶ 34:24 Markets Face A Double-Threat Today | Jim Iuorio · 8 Oct
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The stories
- ○ a voice, on the left
- ◌ a voice raising half of these
- ● a subject, on the right, under its story
- ⌒ a line is a voice raising a subject — thicker, more items; colour is the story
The stories this entity travels in: on the right, each story with the subjects seen alongside it; on the left, the voices that raised them, and a line for every subject a voice raised, bundled by story. Tap a voice to light everything it raises, a subject for who raised it, a story for its own lines. The crumb goes back.
Who brings it up
- Michael Pettis 1 mention
- jim iuorio 1 mention
- Bloomberg 1 mention
- Daniel Lacalle 1 mention
- Adam Taggart 1 mention
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