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MISALLOCATION MALAISE

While AI spending is boosting wages and driving massive investment in plant and equipment, it may, paradoxically, be reducing GDP growth. This is because AI spending is probably occurring much more quickly that it should be, like the Housing Boom. Due to this temporal misallocation of capital, other projects that at the margin would help the economy more get delayed or else never happen. AI is too much too soon.

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