September/October 2026 The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929. Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray Sep 1, 2026
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