America financed AI with debt its buyers cannot service and chips it can switch off, so Europe should run open-weight models under European law.
America financed AI with debt its buyers cannot service and chips it can switch off, so Europe should run open-weight models under European law.
Scott Ortkiese traces how cheaper AI, fixed payment obligations, and tightening credit transmit losses to lenders, jobs, and taxpayers in his forecast.
The U.S. and Europe spent $674.2 billion on Ukraine’s proxy war while American Tomahawks triple-tapped a girls’ school in Minab, killing 120 children.
Bond losses and private-credit contraction will expose AI’s funding gaps, trigger payment demands, and send losses back through banks and insurers.
Concentrated wealth turns campaign finance, tax privileges, and private access into congressional power, burdening wage earners and weakening democracy.
Ukraine’s demographic losses, damaged energy system, and dependence on foreign support leave it without the foundations for a sovereign national recovery.
Trump hosts Xi on September 24 with the AI executives as scenery, and the polling behind the growth claim is the worst ever recorded for any president.
Saudi Arabia’s security bargain created dependencies and adversaries. A U.S. retreat could cost the kingdom strategic autonomy before it threatens its borders.
The five largest American cloud companies will spend $770bn in 2026 on equipment with a 3 year life, serving a $64bn market, against a $40tn national debt.
Treasury drafted a voluntary AI safety rule, Zuckerberg, Musk, and Sacks killed it by phone, and two Oval Office signing ceremonies were called off.