Kai Ryssdal

His chairmanship is, uh, he's also being, uh, criminally investigated by the justice department.

That suit, uh, has been, the subpoenas have been quashed on appeal, but they are probably going to be appealed again by the justice department.

I wonder what you make of, there's like a three part question.

So I'm going to ask you the first, first, um,

Do you think Powell stays on the board of the Fed when his term as chair is done?

He's got two more years to go in his board seat.

In addition to having brought the economy to a soft landing in like 24.

Fed independence.

Are you worried about it?

not been consistent quiet part out loud right there well i was i was going to ask you about war so that was that was the third part uh a couple of questions from the audience that we've gotten and please keep them coming in they're they're sending them to me from from backstage um lots of questions about ai not about the bubble not about the debt but what it's going to mean because it's coming whether it comes tomorrow or in 10 years thoughts well what are your thoughts on it what the hell is that

So look, number one, I do think it's a bubble.

And I think the whole debt thing that you brought up is very real.

I've got two kids who are either just or about to, well, she will in three years, graduate from college.

So I'm worried about that because that's the layer of jobs that are being taken out.

But I think...

We are now getting so much smarter about the risks of AI.

I mean, ChatGPT has been out for, what, two years, 18 months, something like that?

And we were all like, yay!

And now we're like, oh.

So there's a lot of that.