We are live, the economic update with Dr. Kirk Elliott, our resident economist here at Badlands Media.

My name is Sean Morgan. I'm host over at Amp News. Also have a new show coming out on Badlands

next week called Breaking History with Matthew Erith. We'll be analyzing the breaking news through the

context of suppressed history. But now let's get into the business stuff, the economic stuff. That's what

people want to know about with you, Kirk. I was looking at the headlines today. And it looks like

every day this week, there's a new headline about Google or some behemoth injecting hundreds

of millions of dollars into an AI startup. This reminds me of the

Metaverse days last year. I mean, that wasn't so long ago that everyone was so exuberant

about the Metaverse and virtual reality and Facebook changed its name and everything. That went to

hell really fast. But maybe AI has more legs. What do you think?

Well, I think it probably does have more legs because it's going to be the basis of the new

banking system, right? It's going to be, however, this is one of those ethical dilemmas that

people have. It's like, do you want to feed the beast kind of a thing, right?

Because it is doing really good.

I mean, Nvidia is screaming a lot of the other ancillary chip makers that are making chips specifically used for AI are going up.

But here's where, I mean, okay, so I just read an article on Zero Hedge this weekend.

And you and I, for good grief, Sean, probably nine months have been talking about central bank digital currency, right?

How it's been coming, how this is going to change currency and banking as we know it.

So central bank digital currency, as, you know, for all the new viewers, digital currency created

by the government, you know, with their, you know, centralized cryptocurrency, which is attach attach your digital social profile, social credit

score. If you're a company, your ESG is right. And you have to tow the line or also cut you

off from buying or selling. That's what it's all about. So I read this article about Bank of

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