What would the stock market and economy look like without AI?
What would the stock market and economy look like without AI?
- February 23, 2026
- Eric Swanson, economics, Marketplace, Feb. 23, 2026
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There’s always the risk that some companies are overvalued and end up crashing like during the dot-com bust in the early 2000s, said Eric Swanson, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine. But there was “a lot more euphoria and sort of a frenzy around dot-com companies,” many of which had no profits at all despite their stock valuations, Swanson pointed out.
For the full story, please visit https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/02/23/if-theres-an-ai-bubble-this-is-what-could-go-wrong.
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