Tuesday, July 28, 2026

AI Boom: Implications for Financial and Monetary Stability

The AI Threat to Financial Stability by Brian Judge (Research Director of the Program on Finance and Democracy at the University of California, Berkeley)
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-bubble-threatens-financial-stability-by-brian-judge-2026-07
In episodes like the railroad boom and the dot-com bubble, creditors and shareholders were wiped out, because investment in a genuinely transformative technology outpaced any plausible near-term return. With the US financial system and asset markets having become a one-way bet on AI, such an outcome today could be catastrophic.
 
Balancing Innovation and Inflation in Portfolios
https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/2026/07/10/ce510cb7-570e-477c-932b-8b706e7188d6.pdf
 
BIS Report: AI and the global economy: implications for central banks
https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull130.pdf
 
Related:
Structural shifts demand a new central banking mindset by Vivekanand Jayakumar, The Hill, July 21, 2026
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5979598-monetary-policy-paradigm-shifts/)
The AI bubble could be worse than the dot-com bust by Vivekanand Jayakumar, The Hill - 06/16/26
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5925202-tech-bubble-ai-driven-growth/