Merryn Somerset Webb

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Merryn Talks Money · Can Governments Afford These Interest Rates? · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

I don't, by the way.

And if you really believe that it's possible that we will develop genuine AI as actual artificial intelligence instead of man made data analysis, which is what it is at the moment.

If you actually believe that, would would you actually invest in AI?

Of course you wouldn't.

You'd spend all your money right now.

Right now, because either we're all gonna die or money isn't necessary because we move into a utopia, right?

So you know

Spend your money now, go on holiday.

Not all, I mean, don't invest in these IPOs, waste of time.

That would be.

Yeah, this is very

All right.

Okay, okay, John now

We are gonna talk about the thing that might actually bring down the AI bubble.

If it is a bubble.

Of course, the thing that'll really bring it down, which of course is the rising cost of credit.

Yes.

Uh so we are in uh interest rate week.

Yeah.

And this week we've had the Fed putting up rates.

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