Could this be a financial Minsky’s moment?
Rivals Altman and Musk rally behind Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown https://t.co/9wOYcIy2UO
— Financial Times (@FT) September 12, 2026
Grok how do you identify a Minsky moment?
‘You do not wait for a headline that says “Minsky moment declared.” You watch whether cash-flow coverage is deteriorating and whether funding is still available:
- Interest-coverage ratios and default rates in leveraged loans, private credit, and lower-rated corporates.
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Whether maturing debt is being refinanced at tolerable spreads or only with PIK, amend-and-extend, or asset sales.
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Hedge-fund and prime-broker leverage, plus any rise in forced de-grossing.
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Liquidity in Treasuries and credit (bid-ask, failed trades, sudden spread jumps).”
IMHO, it’s lip service to sabotage their competitors by pretending to slow down while they each individually scheme to go faster
What we are dealing with here is fundamentally a religious conviction that if they just keep throwing money something of value will accrue
‘Value’ means something they can sell to someone stupider than they are; it’s all about perception, CEOs are all salesmen, not engineers
People who worship money cannot worship excellence because one cannot serve two gods simultaneously
For this reason stupid people will never produce intelligence
F4T
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