What This Week Revealed About Power
May 15, 2026•18 min
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Episode description
This week, the biggest stories all pointed to the same question: is America becoming more efficient — and more fragile at the same time? George Hahn unpacks the AI productivity boom, the growing cognitive tradeoffs of automation, China’s increasing leverage over the U.S., and the economic fallout from the Iran conflict.
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