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Re:Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble by sindriava on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:37PM (#45784626)
ITT: Keyboard warriors with no background in economics deciding if multinational corporate deals are a bubble or not
Re:Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble by stackskipton on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:56PM (#45784790)
ITT: people believe that those in jobs with big educational backgrounds might have incentives to say something not 100% backed by evidence because it would impact their job.
Re:Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble by emp17344 on Saturday November 01, 2025 @05:27PM (#45785561)
A careless comment from the Fed Chair could quite literally destroy the economy. He’s constrained in what he can say - you almost never get to hear what Powell is really thinking.
Re:Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble by myhf on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:58PM (#45784822)
smh, keyboard warriors with no background in tailoring deciding whether the emperor has clothes or not
Re:Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble by Esophagus4 on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:43PM (#45784669)
...without taking a position and putting their own skin in the game.

For most people in the comments section of "AI bubble" articles, it seems like "big numbers == bubble"

Re:Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble by sindriava on Saturday November 01, 2025 @04:03PM (#45784873)
People also think that two companies doing business with each other is somehow a "circlular dependency".