(Part 4 of 5) News and my thoughts from the past week (26Jan2026)
News and my thoughts from the past week (26Jan2026)
Civil unrest. Jamie Dimon says that’s what happens when AI layoffs move faster than society can adapt. AI isn’t the danger. Speed is. If technological displacement arrives in sudden, concentrated waves, Dimon warned that the consequences could be destabilising. “You’ll have civil unrest.” - X user Amanda Goodall
Trump admitted the reason he doesn’t want home prices to fall so people can afford them, is that current homeowners and mortgage lenders would lose money. But if homes are so overpriced that people can't afford to buy them, they’re not worth what people think. A crash is coming. - Peter Schiff
One of the most overvalued stock markets by any metric - X user Lukas Ekwueme
The Federal Reserve is injecting $55.3B into the financial system between Jan 20 and Feb 12 through Treasury reinvestments (about $15.4B) and reserve management purchases (around $40B in T-bills). - X user Jacob King
"Interest on the US debt is ultimately what's predicted to destroy the US economy. That debt payments will eventually grow out of control, and the dollar will be abandoned because it essentially turns into monopoly money. A fair amount of folks believe the US debt is already out of control, which is why they're swapping to actual long-term assets like precious metals, nuclear goods, or refinement." - BlackRock CEO Larry Fink
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