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Humans just press enter
Its not just Coders....adoption for Open AI's codex platform is sweeping into every profession
Source: OpenAI
A Trillion Dollars On Machines
U.S. spending on AI is on track to top $1 trillion a year by 2027 — about 3% of the entire economy. That's roughly what America spends on all its roads and bridges.
Source: Bloomberg
Chips Are One-Fifth Of America
Semiconductor stocks now make up 20% of the entire S&P 500 — an all-time high. One industry, one-fifth of the largest market on earth.
Source: Bloomberg
A Memory Chip Caught Apple
Micron — a company that just makes memory chips — earned $28.2 billion last quarter. Apple, the most valuable company on earth, earned $29.6 billion. The chip shortage is that real.
Source: YCharts
Even Small Caps Went All-Time High
It is not just the mega-caps — the small-cap technology index just punched to a brand-new all-time high too. The AI money is flooding all the way down the size ladder.
Source: All Star Charts
Bigger Than Countries
Richer Than Most Nations
Elon Musk's net worth is now larger than the entire annual economic output of most countries on earth — the green ones on this map all produce less in a year than one man is worth.
Source: IMF
One-Fifth Just Pays Interest
Roughly 20 cents of every dollar the U.S. government collects in taxes now goes to nothing but interest on the debt — approaching an all-time record.
Source: U.S. Treasury
The Real Inflation
AI Ate Your Power Bill
Electricity prices have jumped 42% since 2019 — versus 29% for everything else — and the two only split apart when data-center demand exploded. The AI boom is showing up on your utility bill.
Source: Brookings
Rent Just Won't Quit
The national median rent climbed again in June to $1,385 — the fifth straight monthly increase. The 'rent is finally cooling' story keeps not happening.
Source: Apartment List
The $73 Hot Dog Bill
Feeding 10 people at a July 4th cookout now costs $73.82 — the most expensive on record, up 30% from a decade ago. Freedom isn't free, and neither are the burgers.
Source: American Farm Bureau
The First Cracks
Less Reckless Than It Looks
For all the bubble talk, investors have borrowed far less against their portfolios than in past manias — margin debt sits near the low end of its historical range. The froth isn't leveraged. Yet.
Source: FINRA
Just Because...
Fire Doubled Our Brain Size
Homo erectus brains doubled in size over roughly 600,000 years — not because of hunting, but because of cooking. Raw food yields only 30-40% of its nutrients; cooked food yields close to 100%. Your large, expensive brain wouldn't exist if someone hadn't discovered that food tastes better hot.
