{"id":10885,"date":"2026-08-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=10885"},"modified":"2026-08-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T01:00:00","slug":"from-data-centers-to-the-massive-increase-in-stock-market-wealth-the-ai-boom-is-driving-u-s-economic-growth-but-that-engine-is-also-a-vulnerability-what-happens-if-the-boom-fizzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=10885","title":{"rendered":"From data centers to the massive increase in stock market-wealth, the AI boom is driving U.S. economic growth. But that engine is also a vulnerability. What happens if the boom fizzles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-85611583\" \/><br \/>AI has rapidly become a huge economic factor while affecting everything from capital investment to how much you pay for an iPhone.<br \/>\n2026-08-04 01:00:00<br \/>\nJustin Lahart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI has rapidly become a huge economic factor while affecting everything from capital investment to how much you pay for an iPhone. 2026-08-04 01:00:00 Justin Lahart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}