Krugman: AI Boom Is 'Crowding Out' Other Investments Unlike Dot-Com Era
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Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Economist Paul Krugman said the artificial intelligence boom is crowding out investment elsewhere in the economy, something the dot-com boom didn't do, and that the effect is…
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- 01Paul Krugman argues that massive data center spending is crowding out investment elsewhere.
- 02Unlike the dot-com boom, this crowding-out effect is already measurable, not hypothetical.
- 03Surging credit demand near full employment is pushing interest rates higher.
- 04Krugman distinguishes this real risk from hypothetical ones like technological unemployment.