Dow looking to open pretty flat tonight:

https://edition.cnn.com/markets/premarkets

+0.26%

freediver wrote on Feb 6^th, 2026 at 2:03pm:


You forgot the current AI boom (and coming bust) Keen is addressing: AI will eliminate jobs, some of which will be replaced by robots, others by "simple scaling up and design improvements". 

Capitalism will survive - under  government  management, as opposed to free markets.

Hence the need for a state-provided high value UBI, to ensure consumers can afford the output of robotic producers.   

thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 6^th, 2026 at 1:28pm:


The US corporate layoffs for Jan we're nuts...

Bobby. wrote on Feb 7^th, 2026 at 1:00pm:


Er - the 'End Times' have been posited ever since St John closed Revelations with:

"He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come. Lord Jesus".

I think men - 1900 years later - now must face the fact WE, not Jesus,  will determine the 'End Times', in a nuciear war or economic-ecological catastrophe.

You aren't helping much with the solutions for avoiding these 'End Times'.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 7^th, 2026 at 1:31pm:


The Mongol conquests of the 13th century were a greater catastrophe, entire  cities across Eurasia destroyed by Ghengis' horseback-mounted bowmen.

The Black Death in 1347 was a far greater catastrophe than any of those.

The 30 years war in Europe in the 17th century.

It's just in modern times, for the first time in history, everyone knows what's happening everywhere.


The question remains:

What are your solutions to the economic, political and ecological problems facing us today?

My policies:

1. https://publicmoneypublicgood.net/

Note:public money, not "taxpayer money".
 

Likewise, global ecological problems can be fixed by money printing in a World Bank, properly constituted,  to fund intelligent  resource mobilization needed to fix man-made, looming ecological disasters.

Stop skirting YOUR responsibility, while swallowing the Bible's narrative re "End Times".

It's happening again Bobby. In between hitting record highs.

https://edition.cnn.com/business




https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/23/investing/us-stocks-trump-tariffs





New York
—
Stocks fell, gold moved higher and volatility picked up Monday as uncertainty about President Donald Trump’s new proposed tariffs and nerves about artificial intelligence weighed on Wall Street.

The Dow was down 866 points, or 1.75%, in afternoon trading. The broader S&P 500 fell 1.25%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite sank 1.42%.

After the Supreme Court on Friday struck down the tariffs Trump had levied using an emergency powers law, the president over the weekend announced he would hike tariffs to a new level of 15% on imports into the United States via different legal authority.

The renewed focus on tariffs, in addition to confusion about potential refunds, is clouding the outlook for stocks. Wall Street’s fear gauge, the VIX, jumped 11% Monday and surpassed 20 points, a threshold that signals elevated volatility in markets.

“The push and pull with tariffs is likely to be a distracting theme for markets for the remainder of the year, albeit with less volatility than the initial shock last April,” Michael Landsberg, CIO at Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management, said in a note.

While investors are grappling with new tariff announcements, Wall Street is also wrestling with lingering weakness in technology and AI stocks. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is down roughly 6% since hitting a record high in late October.

Fears of AI disruption continue to weigh on markets. Citrini Research on Sunday published a report on Substack laying out hypothetical scenarios for how developments in AI could disrupt certain parts of the economy. Stocks that were mentioned in the report tumbled on Monday.

Looks like it will trade flat tonight:

https://edition.cnn.com/markets/premarkets


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