BIG INTV: Joe Weisenthal Has Predictions About How the AI Bubble Will Burst
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
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Summary
Right now much of the US economy rests on AI’s future. In fact, Odd Lots cohost Joe Weisenthal says the rest of the economy that isn't tech or AI related is creaking along. He breaks down for Katie why AI’s impact on finance goes beyond billion-dollar investments.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wired, this is the big interview. I'm Katie Drummond. |
| 0:08.0 | All anyone can talk about these days is how AI is revolutionizing everything from coding to copywriting. |
| 0:15.0 | But AI is literally affecting the majority of the population in a more tangible way, the global supply chain. |
| 0:20.0 | Companies are throwing machine |
| 0:21.8 | learning at forecasting, logistics, operational efficiency, and tariff Tetris. Meanwhile, economic |
| 0:27.7 | experts are increasingly sounding the alarm that this AI mania, and the billions of dollars |
| 0:32.4 | being thrown into the tech, is creating a bubble that might very well burst, and take the economy |
| 0:37.2 | down with it. |
| 0:38.5 | To find out more and figure out whether or not to hoard gold bars and prepare for an AI |
| 0:42.7 | economic apocalypse, I called a former colleague and very talkative, very smart economics expert. |
| 0:49.3 | Joe Wisenthal is co-host of Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast. Here's our conversation. |
| 0:56.3 | Joe Wisenthal, welcome to the big interview. |
| 0:58.9 | Thank you. Thrilled to be here. Nice to see you again. It's nice to see you. It's been too long. |
| 1:02.3 | We were just talking that Joe and I worked together. What was that? Like, nine years ago? |
| 1:08.7 | It was 2014-2015. So like maybe 10 years ago or so 10 years ago |
| 1:13.3 | i worked at bloomberg i lasted about a year it's not bad not bad it was not bad in my mid 20s |
| 1:20.9 | maybe not the most conducive environment to my professional success let's just say that but joe you were |
| 1:26.9 | you were there you were loud you that. But Joe, you were there, you were loud, |
| 1:29.2 | you were proud, you were excited. You were always very excited about the economy. |
| 1:33.2 | I love, I love talking about the economy. |
| 1:35.4 | And you would just scream and shout and you would hoot and holler. And I was like, |
| 1:39.2 | who is this guy sitting across from me? And why is he so loud? But I really appreciated your |
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