#FinancialBubble
During the 17th c. #DutchGoldenAge, the #Netherlands had the highest per-capita income and pioneered many of #capitalism's features. #TulipMania, the first major #FinancialBubble, popped on #ThisDayInHistory in 1637, but had little effect on the economy unlike many later bubbles.
February 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
If #AI succeeds, the current system of “working to survive” becomes obsolete; if it fails, the #financialbubble splashes all of us. The problem isn’t that the machine is intelligent—it’s that the economic system isn’t designed for #humans to rest while machines work.
March 30, 2026 at 12:49 PM
November 20, 2024 at 10:17 AM
The $2T carbon credit tokenization boom shows alarming parallels to the 2008 mortgage crisis. Same promises: transparency, security, reliability—and same red flags. Are we building another financial house of cards on shaky verification? #RWA #CarbonCredits #FinancialBubble
May 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
From tulips to chatbots.
In this week’s Pushing the Wave, L.A. Davenport looks at the AI boom—and what Carole Cadwalladr calls a “tech tumour” metastasising across the economy.
📖 Read now → pushingthewave.co.uk/more/thought...
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The Rise and Fall of the AI Bubble? by L.A. Davenport
From chatbots to trillion-dollar speculation, L.A. Davenport explores whether the AI boom is innovation—or just another bubble waiting to burst.
pushingthewave.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM