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Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast

572: Is AI Carrying the Entire Stock Market?

Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast

Casey Weade

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Investing

4.7564 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Could AI be the force preventing a recession, and are today's biggest AI winners only the beginning of a much larger economic transformation? 

As part of our "By the Numbers" series, topics covered in this episode include:  

  • Why market "breadth" matters more than headlines
  • How today's AI boom compares to the dot-com era
  • The four phases of the AI market cycle
  • What retirees should consider amid concentrated market growth

Today's article is from the TrendLabs.com titled Would We Be in a Recession Without AI Stocks? Listen in as Founder and CEO of Howard Bailey Financial, Casey Weade, breaks down the article and provides thoughtful insights and advice on how it applies to your unique financial situation.

Show Notes: HowardBailey.com/572

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The market may not simply be rewarding AI stocks.

0:03.3

It may be transitioning from rewarding the builders of AI to rewarding the users of AI.

0:18.8

Hey, this is Casey Weeb.

0:20.3

Welcome to the show. It is my mission here on the podcast to deliver

0:24.9

clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life. You may be saying, well, I thought we were

0:28.9

going to talk about AI stocks. Well, we are, and we have both financial and non-financially

0:33.6

related conversations here on the show. This is one of those financially related conversations. This is a buy the numbers episode. If you're seeking out those more, oh, non-financial

0:43.6

topics, look for those episodes titled Freedom After 50. We believe all of these things tie in together,

0:49.3

though. You have to address the financial to be able to live out the non-financial. You have to address the

0:55.8

non-financial to truly embrace meaning and purpose in your life. And we include all of this

1:01.1

content that we give to you in our email that goes out every single Friday called Weekend

1:06.0

Reading for Retirees along with another, all kinds of other great resources, links to our articles,

1:11.1

et cetera. We always have four articles in there that I'm reading. And I want to put the Tyrese along with another, all kinds of other great resources, links to our articles, etc.

1:18.8

We always have four articles in there that I'm reading, and I want to put those in front of you every week, as well as summaries and takeaways for myself.

1:26.1

If you'd like to get signed up for that weekly email, we'll also send you a free digital copy of my Wall Street Journal bestseller job optional. Just text us the key letters

1:27.8

WR to 888-599-4491. We'll send you a link to get yourself signed up to receive that weekly

1:36.1

email. Today I am joined by my good friend fellow certified financial planner Marshall Johnson.

1:41.8

Hey, hey, what's up, good, buddy? Well, we're talking about an article from Trend Labs blog, and it is titled,

1:48.3

Would We Be in a Recession Without AI Stocks?

1:52.5

I found this to be an interesting article that also came up a bit short.

1:58.3

And so I wanted to expand on this, but it's something that I believe

2:03.5

we've had a lot of conversations. I know I've had a lot of conversations with clients and those

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