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This is exactly the kind of AI financing risk (and exposure to the wider economy) we examine in our new report with @RealBankReform, out today: openmarketsinstitute.org/pub…
“If CoreWeave is borrowing at 9% and the best return they can get off of that is a 5% return, it doesn’t matter how much they scale: They’re destroying value at every turn…That’s especially true for the type of neocloud that funds their entire investment based on debt. The more leverage we use to build data centers, the more risk we’re bringing into the system.”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
🚨 Silicon Valley & Wall Street are pouring trillions into AI, propping up the boom with risky debt, circular financing, & accounting tricks.
When it crashes, everyone could pay the price.
Our new report @RealBankReform @AiPolicy:
openmarketsinstitute.org/pub…
While Washington debates what AI might do tomorrow, voters are furious about what Big Tech is doing with it TODAY.
Top Democratic pollsters told us about six “surgical strikes” on AI that light up focus groups, cross partisan lines and animate undecided voters... 🧵
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Two more thoughts about the politics of AI right now:
– @CelindaLake says the immediate opportunity is to shift the conversation to the exploitive corporations in control of the technology
– @ACCass agrees, and wants us to talk about reassuring voters and restoring their power
Full articles with more expert advice:
➡️ libertyandpower.substack.com…
➡️ libertyandpower.substack.com…
Celinda Lake – Joe Biden’s 2020 pollster – says voters experience AI both as a distant threat of catastrophic harm **and** as an immediate cost of living issue. It’s showing up in surveillance pricing, high utility bills, healthcare denials, and workplace instability.
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Illinois alleges that McDonald's uses an AI-powered pricing recommendation system that facilitates coordination among independently owned franchises. newsweek.com/mcdonalds-faces…
We wrote about this kind of AI-enabled price coordination in our comment to the @FTC urging the agency to ban surveillance pricing. openmarketsinstitute.org/pub…
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William Randolph Hearst ran his politics through 25 newspapers. Barry Lynn, executive director of the @openmarkets, argues the same move is even more powerful today.
From a panel on money in politics at the 2026 @StiglerCenter Annual Conference. Watch the full panel below 👇