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Today’s Animal Spirits is sponsored by Franklin Templeton:

This episode is sponsored by Franklin Templeton. Learn more at www.ftprivatemarkets.com.

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Animal Spirits:

On today’s show, we discuss:

• Meta: A Clearer Roadmap

• A Bloodbath in the Stock Market

• Wall Street Is Starting to Call the Shots in America’s AI Build-Out

• The BTD Generation

• Gen Z job market

• Analysis: Distressed Loan Level Reaches Pandemic Peak, but It’s Different This Time

• Is this the first clear evidence of AI’s impact on the labour market?

• The Beleaguered Chip Sellers Getting Their Revenge on Apple

• OpenAI Slashes Funding Target by $10bn as Tech Anxieties Mount

• Binance Hack: $6.3 Billion Theft, Brand Trust Lessons

• Home Buyers Who Enjoyed Cheap Adjustable Mortgages Are Now Getting a Nasty Shock

• Ex-NBA Star Paul Pierce Says He’s ‘Drowning Financially,’ Struggling to Pay Bills

• Can’t Afford a Home. Can’t Afford a Baby. Can’t Afford Life. This Is 30.

• The Retirement Machine: AI, High Earners and the Hidden Risk to Global Stock Markets

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Recommendations:

• Halloween III: Season of the Witch

• I Play Rocky

• Crystal Lake

• Slow Horses

• The AGI Chronicles by Kevin Roose

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