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PodcastFull SignalSeptember 22, 2026

Top Investment Chief: 2 sectors to BUY to beat AI DOOMSDAY

Basak favors financials and industrials as safer AI-adjacent trades while dismissing AI-doom and frontier-lab collapse fears as overstated.

  • Fed hikes, not cuts: The Fed unanimously raised rates and lifted its neutral-rate estimate, with markets pricing another hike in October and possibly December, driven by resilient growth (Atlanta Fed GDP tracker near 5%).
  • AI capex distorts GDP: Basak estimates AI infrastructure spending has contributed a fourth to a fifth of recent GDP growth, projecting roughly $5 trillion in buildout over five years.

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