The AI Bubble and the Crash Nobody Remembers
November 21, 2025
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as posted by the channelInside the AI Bubble: The Circular Money Loop Behind the Hype
In this 51-49 mini-documentary, James digs into whether the AI boom—driven by Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, and CoreWeave—is a breakthrough or a bubble built on trillion-dollar circular financing loops. By comparing today’s GPU-and-cloud-fueled frenzy to Iceland’s forgotten banking collapse, where an economy built on self-referential growth imploded overnight, the film lays out why an AI correction wouldn’t hit tech titans… but the millions of Americans whose retirement savings now depend on a single overheated sector.
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