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Warren Buffett said America's 'incredible period' was coming to an end. Was he right?

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  • There will likely be a 10 to 20% drawdown in equity markets sometime in the next 12 to 24 months

    80% confidence

  • Berkshire Hathaway wouldn't be immune to economic downturn

    80% confidence

  • Investors should get used to making less returns

    80% confidence

  • If the Buffett Indicator approaches 200%, investors are 'playing with fire' as stock valuations rise faster than GDP

    80% confidence

  • America's 'incredible period' was coming to an end in 2023

    80% confidence

  • The majority of Berkshire Hathaway's businesses will report lower earnings in 2023 than in 2022

    80% confidence

  • Massive tech companies dominate headlines and investment flows, but other companies are also executing well

    80% confidence

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Frontier AI Slowdown Call Splits Industry, Rattles Capex-Sensitive Markets
Anthropic's Dario Amodei publicly called for a coordinated global slowdown in frontier AI development, a stance Microsoft echoed with a 'humanist' AI code of conduct, but Nvidia and Meta's CEOs rejected any coordinated pause days later, exposing a widening rift between safety-focused and growth-focused AI leaders. The dispute landed amid growing financial scrutiny of AI infrastructure spending — a hyperscaler capex analysis, FTC warnings against antitrust waivers for AI firms, and an 8.6% single-day stock drop in GE Vernova tied directly to the slowdown remarks — signaling investors are newly nervous about whether the AI capex boom (including Alphabet's projected $701B revenue narrative) can be justified if the pace of development itself becomes contested.
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Satellite-Terrestrial Network Integration Acceleration
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ING Group
Both facts record the same metric (shares_outstanding) for ING Group at the identical observation date (2025-12-31). FACT A states 2,902,437,688 shares; FACT B states 2,902 million shares (2,902,000,000). The difference is 437,688 shares (~0.015%). This is a genuine value conflict, though the discrepancy appears to result from FACT B rounding to the nearest million while FACT A provides the precise count.
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