Last time we had a big bubble burst (2008, the subprime crisis), the investment dollars piled into commodities like grain futures that were perceived as "safe". Result: 1-2 years later crop prices soared—a major contributory factor if not THE trigger for the Arab Spring in 2011 and the Syrian and Libyan civil wars.
This time I expect they'll try and boost fossil fuel assets (to support the AI data centres that are going bust, natch). Cynical, moi?
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115277669440336320
Here's an even worse scenario.
The "#AI" companies are saved by financial support from the Department Of War, and are repurposed into propaganda generators in the war to annex #Canada and #Greenland.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115280750853821749
Notice that #PeteHoekstra has already been pushing the line on Canadian telly that #Canada is an "anti-American" aggressor that started this.
And if the emergency meeting is about pulling staff from the Indo-Pacific closer to home …