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The AI Bubble Warning Just Came From Europe’s Central Bank (www.gadgetreview.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Passive investing turned everyone into a tech investor without anyone asking permission. That’s the uncomfortable reality your pension statement won’t spell out. Concentration risk isn’t theoretical — it’s sitting inside the funds you forgot you owned, quietly indexed to the same seven companies the ECB just flagged as the core of a potential AI Infrastructure financial stability problem.

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Euro area households, which are increasingly channelling funds into low-cost ETFs, have around €440 billion of exposures to US technology equities without necessarily being aware of the associated concentration risk

I think they're well aware of the risk and that's something they're willing to gamble with

There is plenty of opportunity for them to invest in safer less risky investments

There is also plenty of people who are investing and will continue to invest through any 2008 financial crisis or dot com bubble and will simply pick up cheap stocks

The reality is that if Europe wants less Europeans exposed to the Mag 7 it needs to make its own stock markets more attractive, which as per usual it is taking its sweet time with

Still work do to on capital markets union, German minister says

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/still-capital-markets-union-german-151037510.html

I'm also not sure why people are so hyped up on a potential correction, there's been like 3 in my life time (asian financial crisis, dot com bubble and 2008 financial crisis), it's not like we won't come out the other side and keep building

[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 51 minutes ago

So much money that could instead be invested in Europe instead