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AI is Overhyped, Will Only Worsen Inequality: Simon Johnson

The Contrarian Investor Podcast

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The US Dollar as the Reserve Currency

How realistic is it to expect any type of actual political upheaval in the US at any point? Do you think about that at all? So I'm an immigrant to the United States. I really like this country and I like its political system, which is not a fashionable thing to say. What I particularly like is we have a lot of open competition for ideas. And there's a lot of pragmatic politicians. The streak of pragmatism runs very deep in American studies. We've got some pretty big tensions in the US. I think we can find a way out of it. It will help massively on all the other issues that we fight about.

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