Trump's 'Liberation Day': US govt imposes tariffs to 'reset' global trade, 'MAGA', 'defeat' China - Will it work?

I trust Ed Dowds economic analysis who I've been listening to for several years. At the beginning he describes the big boom in AI taking place. He says its being way over hyped and its full of flaws which includes 25% serious inaccuracies making it useless for companies to use. It's in a very preliminary stage. He had me wondering if it may end up being a flop more or less.

At 16:50 he describes China's economy. There are so many conflicting reports on this it's hard to know whats going on. Basically China is booming or falling apart. He begins with the drop in demographics (population?) that began in 2020 will continue to 2032, a real estate crisis that implodes in 2026, their bonds aren't doing well and the plan is to export there way out of financial decline. Dowd calls this a classic deflationary collapse. Trump may have more leverage with the tariffs because of these factors. His company has just published an in depth report on Chinas economy for corporations so he doesn't report on all that was found.

Gold, a housing bust created by building homes for migrants, bank bailouts, a deep recession for the US coming are other topics.

 
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Trump also signed a multi-billion rare earths deal with Australia recently, including the construction of processing facilities. So eventually China's dominance in this regard should lessen:

 
A follow up.

I trust Ed Dowds economic analysis who I've been listening to for several years. At the beginning he describes the big boom in AI taking place. He says its being way over hyped and its full of flaws which includes 25% serious inaccuracies making it useless for companies to use. It's in a very preliminary stage. He had me wondering if it may end up being a flop more or less.
 
Something is telling me that we'll have the worst of both worlds. Scam artists like OpenAI or Nvidia will take the retail down and create a crisis (which is needed to introduce digital currency?), but the infrastructure being built is not going to disappear. Those are basically gigantic tensor processing clusters, which can be used for machine learning tasks. Think about transaction anomaly detection or natural language-definable contracts embedded into digital money, voice recognition or transcription. Or even Minority Report-style predictive inference, if we believe that Clif High was approached by a group that wanted to buy his web bot from him (he mentioned that on his blog some time ago, and AFAIR it was an Israeli one). For some time now, my mind has been constantly reminding me of the 16 October 1994 session:
Q: (L) "And all the inhabitants of the earth will fall down in admiration... everyone whose name has not been recorded from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life of the Lamb that was slain in sacrifice from the foundation of the world..." What are "those whose names are recorded in the Book of Life... what is the Book of Life?

A: Supercomputer.

Q: (L) The Book of Life of the Lamb... everyone whose name has not been recorded... it is saying that the people who are going to worship the Beast are names that have not been recorded... does that mean that there is a supercomputer recording the names of those who do not worship the beast?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) And who has this supercomputer?

A: Beast. All names will be recorded as being either obedient or disobedient.
Infrastructure developments are also taking place. Everyone is looking at Nvidia, but there's, for example, Cerebras that is building these crazy big-ass wafers:
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I really recommend watching the video below:
 
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