Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

10/12/2026

Data centers are like an airline, posing major problems. Either they get to few passengers, making them lose money, or they good too many, and they don’t have the capacity to support them. Ed Zitron breaks it down

10/12/2026

Bonds aren’t always safe, even during inflationary times. Economist Dean Baker shares a story about how bonds can’t always be relied on.

10/11/2026

Ed Zitron tells the story of the AI doom loop - how AI companies are digging themselves into debt as prices for GPU’s increase and data centers aren’t able to be completed.

10/10/2026

Private Equity doesn’t hold for the long term posing a major problem. As Helaine Olen explains, they purchased companies post pandemic when they were experiencing unprecedented booms, but now they can’t find any buyers of their short-term investments.

10/09/2026

Mortgage rates are now hitting century highs, another horrible milestone from the Trump administration. This has led to a 15% decrease in people purchasing mortgages and especially hurts younger households more, with those under 35 falling 35.2%

Economist Dean Baker says: “This can be seen as fallout from a combination of the AI bubble, Trump’s war on Iran, and the Trump crazy premium. Only the first is likely to end soon.”

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Mortgage rates hit 7.49%, reducing home buying as younger households face the lowest homeownership rate since 2017.

10/09/2026

$413 billion of Anthropics compute agreements are non-cancellable, and OpenAI has billions more to pay to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Ed Zitron asks how they are possibly going to pay this money back?

10/09/2026

NEW EP: Renowned AI critic Ed Zitron is back talking with CEPR's Dean Baker about who will pay when the pops. They dig into Amazon's multibillion dollar AI chip scheme, Oracle’s debt & Nvidia's stockpiles of unused chips.

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10/06/2026

NEW UPDATE: Amazon is selling $8B in chips to a new investment vehicle and leasing them right back. It's like a loan dressed up as a sale so it never appears as debt. As a reminder, the closer the housing bubble got to collapse, the stranger the financing became too.

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10/05/2026

NEW: 16 members of Congress reintroduced the to loosen grip on our economy. The bill would limit access to public funds, make them responsible for the debt they pile onto companies. It also prohibits use of REITs in our healthcare. More:

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10/02/2026

September's job numbers just dropped and it shows our labor market is in a bad spot. While historically, unemployment of 4.2% is considered low, it doesn’t tell the full story.

Self employment has trended lower this month, as has the employment rate for native born workers, in spite of Trump’s immigration policy.

Further, employment among disadvantaged groups, such as young and black workers, has continued to fall. At the same time, corporations have bet big money on an AI productivity boom - a gamble that hasn't paid off.

Another potentially alarming factor is the fact that men continue to lag sharply behind women when it comes to job growth numbers, with women accounting for the majority of growth.

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