A Wealth of Common Sense · 20 September 2026 · Additional Read

The Biggest Risk to the Economy

Ben Carlson

Policy errors—not market corrections themselves—pose the greatest economic risk. Drawing parallels between today's AI boom and the 1873 panic, the author argues that heavy-handed government intervention, whether monetary, fiscal, or trade-related, could turn a normal slowdown into a prolonged depression, as happened after the dot-com bust morphed into the financial crisis.

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