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sk from AI is that it will not make money. And apparently that is a really big risk. So there is a growing feeling, and I saw it again today, that AI may be plateauing and not getting much better from where it is. And I am actually seeing the word plateau in this article from Futurism. And it reports that some AI companies are kind of weaning themselves off a little bit of AI they were using and s…

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y trillions of dollars are being essentially sucked out of China and a lot of it is going to the US. So by the end of 2024, foreign direct investment in China hit its lowest level since 1992, and just 4.5 billion went into China, while 168 billion flowed out. I do not know what it means to flow out of China exactly. But anyway, at the same time, as Rod Martin reports, the UAE has pledged a 1.4 trillion investment in the US, Japan 550 billion, EU 600 billion plus 750 billion in US purchases. So o

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n paper, on paper, it looks like Trump is getting exactly what he wants. Tons of money coming into the US and not into China. I will remind you that one of my strangest predictions, unless I caused it, was that in 2018 I said that China would stop getting external investments because people would realize it is too dangerous and too risky to do business in China. Do you remember what people said t…

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