2025’s AI-fueled S&P 500 surge mirrors 1929’s Roaring Twenties speculation, with margin debt at records, overvalued tech giants, and warnings from experts like Andrew Ross Sorkin of bubble risks. Leveraged bets on unproven returns echo the era’s frenzy. Will history repeat with a crash or innovate past it?
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President Trump might welcome plunging stocks amid $36T U.S. debt. A market crash drives “flight to quality,” spiking Treasury demand to lower yields and refinance $7T cheaply. Tariffs already triggered selloffs, echoing theories he aims for recession to cut borrowing costs before Fed cuts, boosting tax cuts despite deficits.