Game Of Thrones: The Mag-7 & The Fed

It has all the drama of “Game of Thrones”: The Magnificent-7 kingdoms, each surrounded by moats, rarely had threatened each other’s monopolies in the past. Now, with the advent of AI, they have been encroaching on each other’s previously sacrosanct fiefdoms, forcing one another to spend ever more to remain in the game. Amid the chaotic disruption, investors’ AI euphoria has given way to AI agita as confidence in the Mag-7 ebbs. Are their earnings inflated by accounting? Will returns justify their capital investments? Our take: AI will have a powerful impact on productivity in the economy. The winners may not be among the Mag-7 at all but the S&P 500’s Impressive 493 and the economy at large. … Today, Dr Ed enlists the help of Google’s Gemini AI assistant to extend the “Game of Thrones” metaphor to this disruption as well as the transition in the Fed’s Iron Throne. ... Also: Dr Ed reviews “Task” (+).