… as hundreds of billions of dollars are flooding into artificial intelligence, there are serious concerns that an AI bubble could trigger another bailout with taxpayer money.

In the interview that follows, leading progressive economist Gerald Epstein, who initiated and directs the Game Changers project at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talks about AI’s impact on finance and the bailout problem and how a transformative public finance strategy can revive democracy, promote equity and social justice, and build strong and sustainable communities.

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    12 hours ago

    The more this gets stated and reinforced, the more likely that people will wake up, stop investing in slop and liquidate their existing investments.

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      12 hours ago

      We shot one corrupt CEO and for a whole glorious month Americans almost had healthcare.