Scott Galloway and Ed Elson sat down with economics writer Noah Smith for a live conversation on the forces reshaping the global economy at the midpoint of 2026. They dig into China's Kimi K3 model and whether US export controls are actually working, debate whether AI demand is real or "artificial" (circular deals, token-maxing, and pricing that doesn't yet cover cost), and clash over Scott's sovereign wealth fund pitch versus Noah's case for an index-fund version modeled on Japan and Alaska. They also cover the wealth inequality behind New York's data center pause, America's collapsing fertility rate and what it means for Social Security, and why Noah thinks "socialism" has become mostly a semantic argument.
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