Are we seeing signs that AI is boosting productivity not at the expense of me and and labor. We are seeing signs that AI is boosting productivity, but it does seem to be coming potentially at the expense of jobs. So it is a really good news, bad news situation, I think.We just got productivity numbers out for the 2026. They came in quite high, 2.9% year over year, which was higher than people expected. So that is evidence that that robots are produce are, you know, boosting our productivity.At the same time ...

Let's do a quick check-in. Raise your hand if you've ever felt proud of being busy. Like having a packed schedule makes you feel accomplished or important.Now, keep your hands raised. Look around. You'll see that you're not alone.You guys could put your hands down now. That pride, that instinct to feel validated by exhaustion, that's culture. When people ask me what I do in my free time, I laugh.Free time. What's that. Between school, piano lessons, Chinese lessons, math lessons, French lessons, and swimmin ...

Joining us now, Ed Yardeni, Yardeni research uh president, frequent guest. We have uh we've been through a lot together, Ed. And uh I remember liberation day.>> Yeah. >> I needled you and said you you you briefly lost your nerve >> briefly. >> And then you went right back to where did you what was your 2025 uh target. >> Uh 7,000 >> and you had gone down briefly and then it and then it came back.this time you didn't you didn't w you didn't waver you didn't flinch >> which you know tariffs are one thing u >> ...

One of the more interesting signals in the data right now is that the yield curve continues to flatten despite a significant increase in oil prices on a trailing three-month basis. Historically, in a more traditional economic cycle, an energy shock that is being monetized by the Federal Reserve would steepen the curve, not flatten it. The Fed is not monetizing this energy shock.In our view, the bond market may be beginning to discount something much more powerful: the deflationary impact of artificial intel ...

I am Yuai and I'm an early adopter of everything and it does wonders to my productivity. I'm I've already built so many useful applications with AI without writing one single line of code and personally I um get relationship advice from Chatty that's how I call him and and AI now is so good that I don't need anybody Okay. Actually, I do.Um I'm I'm still a human being and like all of you like all of us we we crave we crave connections and um the thing is this break neck pace that AI is developing is uh can c ...

A lot of people are kind of like trying to like productivity max right now with AI and it's like >> man I feel that you like get a bunch of agents running and you're like I am God I am achieving >> and it's like none of this is actually anything but look at all this cool stuff I did. >> Yeah. Exactly.It's like very cool but it's like if you're doing your job you really have to look at the output because sometimes we get lost in the weeds of like oh this is so cool I'm making all this stuff but like what are ...

For a long time, basketball had been a central part of my life and a part which I aspired to succeed in. Long hours of club practices, tournaments, and putting up shots at the recreational center in the summer of grade nine was common. Yet, beneath all of this lay a rather subversive culture, one where pressure from teammates, the social prestige at stake, and above all, the manufactured fear of falling behind led me to believe that I not only could succeed by making the elusive school team, but that I had ...