Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough.

So I wasn't supposed to do a weekend bonus episode this weekend.

I've actually got one scheduled

for next week that I still need to actually book and then actually record but a few

days ago I saw Alex Wilhelm at Tech Crunch tweet that he was doing a piece this week asking why everyone

in Silicon Valley and the VC world and the startup world still seem to be preparing for nuclear

winter, while meanwhile the stock market seems to be roaring back

like nothing has really happened over the last two months.

And I was like, yes, I need to talk about that very thing. I need to talk with somebody about that right now

I'm asking myself that question every single day it's not that I'm rooting for a

crash it's not that I'm rooting against the economy want want people to suffer, anything like that.

But everyone I know in the tech world is convinced right now we're in for a really, really

bad recession. Everyone's hunkering down. And yet, the stock market. We'll get into all that on this

episode. I just needed to have this discussion with somebody right away so

forgive me if this one is a little self-indulgent. But join Alex and I as we sort of bat around the question.

Who's right about the economy right now? Silicon Valley or Wall Street.

Well let me start by saying that we're going to hopefully have a really speculative

high-level discussion about the global economy here and I'm pretty I know for a fact

I'm not qualified to have that kind of a discussion and maybe you aren't at the level that I'm aspiring to here either

So I think we're gonna caveat that guys at the top

But Alex look the reason we're talking is because on Twitter I saw

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