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NVIDIA’s $150-Billion Protection Payoff: How much looting of the corporate treasury will Jensen Huang do to protect his job?
NVIDIA’s $150 billion buyback plan raises the question of who benefits when corporate cash is spent propping up share prices. Behind the AI boom lies a system that rewards executives and investors while starving productive investment and weakening resilience.
The Macroeconomic Roots of the Collapse of the Political Center in the US
The collapse of America’s political center isn’t a mystery. What looks like a sudden political crisis is really the result of an economy that’s been abandoning ordinary workers for decades.
The AI Boom Runs on an Even More Dangerous Machine (Part 2)
Silicon Valley promises abundance, but corporate America is built for extraction. The underlying operating system is stuck on making big shareholders rich the expense of everyone else. It’s time for a reboot. *From the “AI and the Future of the American Worker,” a series on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor, power, and the meaning of work. (Read Part 1 of this article here).