Bits + Bips: How AI and Energy Prices Will Force the Fed’s Hand

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If trust in central banks erodes, what replaces it? This week’s Bits + Bips connects AI, energy, inflation, and Bitcoin.

In this episode of Bits + Bips, hosts Austin Campbell, Ram Ahluwalia, and Chris Perkins are joined by Daniel Ives, one of Wall Street’s most closely followed technology analysts, to break down how AI is colliding with macroeconomics.

They debate whether AI will ultimately be inflationary or deflationary, why energy may become the binding constraint on technological growth, and how rising productivity could force the Federal Reserve into uncomfortable trade-offs.

The conversation also covers pressure on central bank independence, the fragility of trust in fiat systems, and why Bitcoin increasingly enters the conversation when that trust erodes.

Hosts:

• Ram Ahluwalia

• Austin Campbell

• Christopher Perkins

Guests:

• Daniel Ives, Managing Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst at Wedbush

Links:

• Bitcoin Briefly Pops to $92K on Powell DOJ News, Then Retreats
• Tether Freezes $182 Million in USDT on Tron

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