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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2736 The GDP Racket & the AI Profitability Problem

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Duffy of Bearing Asset Management joins me to discuss the true state of the economy, what GDP conceals, the challenges AI companies are facing, the strength of Chinese competition, and plenty more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know.

0:08.9

You're listening to The Tom Woods Show.

0:18.6

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2736 of the Tom Wood Show.

0:22.5

We have the great Kevin Duffy back with us once again.

0:25.3

Kevin is a principal at Baring Asset Management, which you helped found, I presume, or you did found.

0:32.1

Yes, with Bill Wagner in 2002.

0:35.2

2002, yeah, it's been longer than that. And he writes the coffee can portfolio,

0:41.8

which you can read every month, I think. It comes out roughly every two or three months.

0:47.6

Every two or three months. Okay. I was just reading the current issue. There's definitely

0:51.4

plenty to talk about in it. Kevin's one of the good guys in terms of,

0:55.5

you know, you're going to agree with them on the way the world works, but those people are a dime

0:59.8

a dozen. We can find a lot of people who have the correct opinions on the world, but we're not

1:03.6

going to find quite as many who have their finger on the proper pulse of what's really going on

1:08.6

in terms of your money and what you ought to do with

1:11.7

it and what's sound and what's unsound and what's a bubble and what's real and Kevin's really good

1:16.9

on that stuff. And heaven knows we have plenty to talk about in that area. But let me start off with

1:23.3

this, even though I want to talk about AI and these various companies and whether this is all viable

1:29.3

or not, but I was looking through your newsletter. I was looking through your portfolio,

1:33.7

and I wonder what your opinion of Bitcoin is and if it deserves a spot in somebody's portfolio.

1:42.2

Wow, you hit me with the tough ones right off the back.

1:44.9

Right off the bat because I was looking for it.

1:47.3

Maybe it was I going too fast or did I not see it?

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