Jared Bernstein
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And that's the political challenge that I was dealing with in the White House.
We were thinking about these issues and these companies were threatening us with exits.
Frankly, I'll take that threat because of what you're describing is so important to put those guardrails in place.
I mean, crypto is a good analogy.
I mean, I think crypto is largely an accident going out to happen in terms of systemic risk to the economy.
But what did the crypto bros do?
They lobbied up faster than any industry I've ever seen.
So, you know, these data centers are, they're, the MAG-7, I just looked this up, the market capitalization of the MAG-7 is $22 trillion.
Yeah.
So, you know, they have all the resources they need to purchase all the deregulation they want.
So I've got a great, it's funny you should ask that because I recently backed out a number that I thought was really compelling answer to that question, unless it's too obscure.
So I'll test it on you and see if it works.
This is a few days old, but I'm sure it doesn't matter.
If you look at the year-over-year increase in the S&P 500, it's 11%.
If you then, that's weighted, meaning that you weight it by market capitalization.
So that's how the S&P is measured.
Right.
So the Magnificent Seven get a huge weight.
I mean, they're not all public.
Like, AI is obviously still a private company.