Nobel Laureate: How The Next Massive Stock Market Crash Unfolds | Daron Acemoglu

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  March 13, 2025 at 23:19  |  28:44  |  The David Lin Report
Speakers
Daron Acemoglu — Institute Professor of Economics at MIT; 2024 Nobel Prize co-winner

Summary

David Lin interviews Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu about threats to US prosperity, the recent tech sell-off, and his scenario of a future stock-market crash. Acemoglu says current market weakness is mainly a cyclical response to tariff uncertainty, while AI and tech are the sectors most exposed if a deeper fallout occurs. They discuss tech consolidation and antitrust, US-China AI competition, democratic institutions, and the Ukraine/NATO security situation.

  • Acemoglu sees the current sell-off as tariff/uncertainty-driven, not the start of his long-term crash scenario.
  • He identifies AI and tech as the tip of the spear for both growth and rapid fallout.
  • He warns that relaxed antitrust could accelerate Big Tech consolidation and weaken innovation.
  • US AI leadership depends on research support and avoiding excessive industry consolidation.
  • He discusses how inclusive institutions and democracy support long-term economic growth.
  • He is skeptical of rare earth minerals as valuable compensation for Ukraine support.
  • He sees risks in weakening NATO and a Ukraine peace deal without security guarantees.
  • He says a US institutional slide is possible under the Trump administration.
Ideas
Daron Acemoglu Institute Professor of Economics at MIT; 2024 Nobel Prize co-winner 7:39
AI/tech are tip of spear.
Acemoglu sees the AI and tech sectors as the 'tip of the spear' for the US economy: if rapid growth occurs it will be driven by these sectors, but if there is a rapid fallout, they will fall first. He does not claim the current sell-off is the start of that crash, but warns this is the area most exposed to a future AI/tech-led market shock.
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Daron Acemoglu Institute Professor of Economics at MIT; 2024 Nobel Prize co-winner 26:53
Rare earth minerals not worth much.
Discussing a possible exchange of rare earth minerals for continued US military support to Ukraine, Acemoglu says the rare earth minerals are not worth all that much, suggesting limited economic value relative to the strategic and legal issues at stake.
REMX LOW
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