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tootie • yesterday at 2:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It's a signal to voters sure but it's also a signal to AI companies and investors to hedge their bets because there's not going to be a backstop if they come crying. That's not puffery, it's forward guidance.


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ai-x • yesterday at 3:15 PM

There was never any backstop to equity investors at any time.

Even during GFC, equity investors were wiped out. Same with Silicon Valley Bank.

This trope that investors are bailed out is doing more harm than good. Because intervention and backstops actually helps the economy from not going into a death spiral that destroys the poor and middle class