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Fed Chairman Warsh on the AI boom.

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Fed Chairman Warsh on the AI boom.

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This is as exciting a time and also as a

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consequential a time to be a central

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banker that I can think of at any point

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maybe outside of a crisis in my adult

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lifetime. The AI boom is showing itself

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first and very prominently in the United

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States. I'd certainly rather have this

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problem where we have massive capital

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expenditures instead of thinking years

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back where we had financial engineering

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where we had companies that weren't able

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to deliver profits. So they would do

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shareholder buybacks. Well, right now

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they're investing in the future because

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their expectation is the supply side of

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the economy will expand.

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The speaker reflects on the unique significance of being a central banker during the current AI boom, noting a positive shift toward significant capital investment rather than financial engineering.

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