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Barron's Streetwise

Is A.I. Spending Sustainable?

Barron's Streetwise

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Barclays US equities strategist Venu Krishna talks about why this isn’t a replay of the dotcom bubble, and how nervous investors can hedge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.5

One of the questions I get is, can this go to zero?

0:33.6

So my answer is there's absolutely no way the spending right now is going to go to zero.

0:39.2

Hello and welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast.

0:42.2

I'm Jack Howe and the voice you just heard, that's Venu Krishna.

0:46.0

He's the head of U.S. equity strategy at Barclays, and he's talking about AI infrastructure

0:52.7

spending.

0:53.6

It's not going to zero. It could go down. He doesn't

0:56.4

necessarily think it will go down from here, but it could. And he's going to tell us what that

1:00.8

would mean for stocks. Don't be alarmed about that. Venu is, I would say, broadly bullish.

1:06.3

I on the other hand, I'm going to quickly run through a few warning signs for investors right now before

1:11.7

we come to that conversation with Venu. This is not because I think you should sell your

1:16.2

stocks. It's impossible to try to spot the top of a bull market. It's because, I don't know,

1:23.6

once in a while I just like to work myself into a frenzy about stuff to worry about and then decide in the end to just leave everything the same and see what happens.

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