https://www.apmex.com/silver-price

What the heck is happening to silver prices? Up almost 50% in the last month!? Might need to dig around and sell some old coins at these prices

#silver #SilverPrice #coins #investing #bubble

Do you like AI?

Come by our assembly at #39c3 and press the button to try out our generative AI machine which is definitely not a bubble :D

#congress #AI #bubble @coldnorth

Ich wünsche mir ja, dass die #KI #bubble mit einem riesigen Knall platzt und die großen Monopolisten allesamt vom Markt verschwinden. Danach dann gerne eine funktionierende Regulierung des Marktes durch internationale Institutionen wie die #UN mit starken Sanktionen gegen diejenigen, die sich nicht an demokratische Regeln halten. Alle Modelle müssen transparent und offen sein.

#google #musk #Microsoft #aws #openai #urheberrecht #fuckai #opensource

"Private equity firms have been struggling to deliver on their core business model of taking on debt, buying companies and selling them for a profit. Several years of high interest rates have made it too expensive for many would-be buyers to purchase companies with debt, and private equity firms are contending with a backlog of more than 31,000 unsold companies, a record amount. Deal activity picked up toward the end of this year, but not enough to make a significant dent in the backlog.

Continuation vehicles are providing a short-term solution by allowing firms to sell the companies to themselves, book a paper gain and wait for interest rates to improve.

Private equity firms have been turning to this strategy more frequently. The dollar value of continuation vehicles across the industry is expected to total $100 billion or more by the end of 2025, up from about $35 billion in 2019, according to the investment bank Evercore.

Private equity is one of the biggest parts of the global economy, with more than $7 trillion in investors’ money, and some of those investors are getting increasingly worried that strategies like continuation vehicles are putting off a painful reckoning.

Private equity firms say they are selling only their best-performing companies to continuation vehicles, which would yield big profits when the companies can eventually be sold to outside buyers.

The risk, investors say, is that the insular nature of these sales — where the private equity firm is both the buyer and seller — is leading to questionable valuations and unrealistic projections, leaving investors vulnerable to painful surprises."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/private-equity-continuation-funds.html

#PrivateEquity #Economy #Bubble #Capitalism #ContinuationFunds #Debt

Lesenswerter Artikel zur aktuellen Blasenökonomie von Tomasz Konicz:

https://www.konicz.info/2025/11/09/die-kuenstliche-intelligenzblase/

#ki #bubble #kapitalismus #neoliberalismus #krise

Deze zwarte lederen sneaker dropt straks. Ga alvast naar de schoen.

👟 Nike Air Max 95 Leather QS (Big Bubble) - Black
🔗 https://tidd.ly/48U4IYE

#leather #bubble #airmax
https://www.sneakeragenda.com/agenda/nike-air-max-95-leather-qs-big-bubble-black-im0696-001/?feed_id=3828&_unique_id=694f86f93fe78

The Venn diagram for the top three stories on Slashdot is sobering.

1] AI and Data Centre tech debt is getting expensive, because trust is falling, 2] Indian tech sector isnt shrunk by AI, its growing, fixing AI, and 3] BIG Tech companies are (temporarily?) bathed in AI money, but non AI companies are struggling.

Indian AI Repair
https://m.slashdot.org/story/450637

Debt Cost Rising
https://m.slashdot.org/story/450635

Slump Divide
https://m.slashdot.org/story/450633

AI: a pair of flip flops, with Ferrari money.

#ai #bubble