Everybody's screaming that $40 trillion in debt means it's end-of-the-world time — so I brought back the one economist I trust to separate the signal from the panic. Bryce Gill of First Trust returns to the show, and what he laid out is bigger than the debt: a $6 trillion AI bet that has to 10x its revenue by 2029, or it takes the economy down with it.

What you'll hear:

• Bryce breaks down why the Treasury's $4 billion bond buyback is "a marketing scheme" — and why rates snapped right back

• Why 3% inflation is the new permanent normal in a post-globalization world

• The stat that's never happened in human history: retirees are now America's biggest consumer demographic

• The $6 trillion data-center math, line by line

• The defense-industrial-base warning: world-class AI targeting, nothing to shoot

• Bryce's honest midterm read — and the data-center backlash nobody's pricing in

Bryce Gill is an economist at First Trust Advisors, where he works alongside Brian Wesbury briefing financial advisor teams nationwide. He's a repeat guest and the show's resident straight-shooter on markets and the economy. Follow the show for new episodes weekly, and find Bryce's work at the First Trust Economics blog.

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00:00 — The $6 trillion math
02:56 — The most resilient economy nobody trusts (AI capex + retirees now drive the economy)
06:03 — "The era of easy everything is over" + the Treasury's $4B buyback
12:15 — Inside the new Fed & real inflation: why 3% is the new normal
18:20 — Reindustrializing America: "We don't have anything to shoot"
25:44 — The $6 trillion math in full: why the AI build-out can't pay for itself
30:40 — Midterm bloodbath, the data-center backlash & the 2008 parallel