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Kevin Warsh's view is clear: AI will eventually force interest rates lower because it will be highly deflationary. "AI is going to make almost everything cost less. We're at the front end of a productivity boom." The problem is that today's economy is telling a different story. Inflation is...

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The new Fed Chair just went on record saying AI is the biggest economic shift of his lifetime and markets are completely missing what that means (Save this). Kevin Warsh, the newly confirmed Fed Chair declared that artificial intelligence is "perhaps as important a change in the economy, business, and households as we've had in my adult lifetime." Before being nominated, Warsh called the current moment the most productivity-enhancing wave of our lifetimes, past, present, and future and argued in a Wall Street Journal that AI would be a significant disinflationary force that bolsters American competitiveness for decades. Warsh's core thesis is built on a direct parallel to the 1990s internet boom. He argues that the internet took a decade to show up in official productivity data, but the Fed under Greenspan took the bet early allowing the economy to run hotter than conventional models suggested and the result was a historic expansion with low inflation and rising real wages. Warsh wants to make that same bet on AI, and has said "the anecdotes will be there before the data. Policymakers will have to take a chance." But his first meeting as Fed Chair tells the more complicated near-term story. Today, Warsh held rates steady at 3.5 to 3.75%, the fourth consecutive hold and nearly half the committee signaled they want to hike rates before year end, with nine officials forecasting at least one increase. The reason AI infrastructure spending is currently inflationary before it is disinflationary, the $4 trillion global data center buildout is consuming steel, electrical equipment, land and skilled labor faster than it is producing productivity gains. Warsh notably did not submit a rate forecast dot at all, the only FOMC member not to, a deliberate signal that he refuses to box himself in. He also made a sweeping structural change to how the Fed communicates. Warsh stripped forward guidance from the policy statement entirely and has reduced the frequency of public Fed commentary, his philosophy being that markets should react to data, not to Fed predictions. This is a fundamental shift from the Powell era, and it means volatility around economic data releases goes up substantially from here.

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