Dave Davies

What is the additional risk posed by this?

Now, what about all of the spending on all these data centers for artificial intelligence?

What's problematic about that?

And what about the increased use of cryptocurrency?

People are borrowing to buy Bitcoin.

One of the other questions about cryptocurrency is, is it actually a product that has a useful purpose?

Is the Trump administration equipped to evaluate all this and act in the public interest?

We're speaking with Andrew Ross Sorkin.

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His new book is 1929, Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation.

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There's also the issue of tariffs.

As you note, there was a major tariff bill imposed after the 1929 crash, the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, which economists I think generally feel was not helpful.

We now have a president who loves tariffs, uses them liberally, threatens them, imposes them, backs off.

I mean you've talked to a lot of business leaders in the summit that you held.

What are you hearing about where we are on tariffs and what their effect is likely to be?

And so there's still not a kind of consistent policy.

I mean, you know, businesses like predictability.

They want to know what to expect.