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Submitted by Steven Kaszab

This coming years will be a year of Global GDP Growth moderating at @3%. There will be double digit gains for S&P 500, & Gold will hit @$4,500 an ounce. Bit Coin Technology will go quietly mainstream through governmental acceptance. Clean Power Deals will accelerate in acceptance and applications. China will become even more reliant upon their export sector. India will become the New Standout Growth Engineer Globally. 

Agentic Artificial Intelligence Technology will become the greatest attraction to big time investment.  A.I. Powered Cyber Defense will gain considerable ground. Data Center Build-outs become a Macro Theme.  A.I. applications supercharge Marketing and Personalization in all business sectors. Stock exchanges-the Marketplace will transfer wealth much quicker as A.I. create the ups and downs of corporate futures.

Artificial Intelligences acceptance by both private and governmental sectors will place the globe in a place never seen before. Equities will be powered by A.I. applications, as to global communication systems. The human touch will be lost as A.I. evolves into a force all its own. Warfare, security and intelligence applications, various financial processes and private/governmental business will fall into the control of computers programs. There will be further erosion of the rules based order, falling into a spontaneous computer equation, “Will something be profitable or not”? 

Technology is cheaper than the human application in most theaters of the economy, so there will be a greater reliance upon technological applications and more corporate-government layoffs. The human touch is replaced by man made applications that only need slight maintenance. Skynet not! Perhaps something all together different, but one thing is for sure. Humanity may loose its control of a system once built to service humanity. 

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31 responses to “2026 the Year of AI”

  1. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Kaszab is wrong about every point in his opening paragraph.

    GDP will not grow. Instead it will decline in Western economies. For his represents the hopelessness of the West.

    The S&P 500 will be susceptible to the burgeoning weakness of the USD.

    That weakness will see gold exceed the 4500 dollar high water mark.

    Bit coin or digital currencies like CBDC though useful in avoiding fiat currencies and an axis of resistance to financial colonialism is not real money and may well emerge as no more than a technologically advanced fiat system no different than paper, unless backed by commodities.

    China will not become more reliant on the export sector if that means Western economies. Why? One, China has on the one hand depending more and more on its domestic market. Two, it has long shifted a reliance of the West and has massively expanded it trade relationship with ASEAN, BRICS, the Global South and the data clearly shows this.

    Indian will for long remain the bridesmaid of the global, China centric, economy. For it lacks the industrial capacities to any time soon reaching the sustainable high growth rates as achieved by China.

    This wishful thinking by Kaszab is always wrong. Never worthy of contemplation.

  2. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/cfAzt7iJhfQ?si=18WC-smsYZE_746a

    China’s de-Americanization.

  3. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    Damn!!
    Pacha is right AGAIN!!

    LOL
    Kaszab is obviously just talking shiite!!
    He must be on a payroll similar to Kiki’s…

    What a joke!

  4. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Jacques Baud is not our favorite commentator.

    For this writer he’s way too mild mannered.

    However, live and let live.

    But even Baud, merely for speaking his mind, comments, on the geopolitical and specifically NATO’s war on Russia has been subjected to the fascistic laws of Switzerland and the European Unión.

    We wonder where Mia Mottley hides when her wokeist friends are openly practicing fascism?

    And those who have argued that China is Communist but have no eyes for fascism, the absence of democracy, civil rights, popular governance amongst the White people in Western Asia.

    If they could do that to him, then Pacha would be summarily executed!

    https://www.youtube.com/live/CNWKPJSYumA?si=f1b1T40QNw7iA6Nn

  5. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/NoBDDi2qBaM?si=qvHgjNWJ1VZGzP_F

    BRICS –

  6. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Paulo, was an early shaper of the BRICS payment systems.

    This writer was once derided on the basis that the BRICS national currencies trading mechanisms did not a reserve currency make.

    Now their systems are far more sophisticated than SWIFT, at a fraction of the cost.

    If Barbados had sense, Mia Mottley could have long dumped the USD and started to settle international balances in the Barbados dollar. The corollory being the balancing of deficits with corresponding investments from countries with surplusses. Like this writer has argued.

    No longer. They now have such. A gold backed médium of exchange. See link above. Hear Paulo!

    White hegemony on earth is done!

    Weeee wonder what Bushie gine do when his god system goes out of ‘bogue’, as the old people use to say.

  7. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    Completely off any topic, there is a young apprentice jockey, Yedsit Hazlewood making waves. He is from Panama. Have to think he is from Bajan stock who went to Panama?
    There was another Hazelwood from Bim in Florida riding for Saffie Joseph. On Joseph, he seems to be riding a Bajan apprentice Micah Husbands plenty. That surname will be familiar to all.

  8. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Most commentators, market watchers, geopolitical analysts, now know or have long known that the Western economic systems are in death throes, except BU, the Kaszabs of this world, those living under a rock, those seeking one last Xmas celebration of foolishness.

    Lawrence Wilkerson!

    https://youtu.be/8KKE2q7kTGI?si=WTI3QgwVEXXVv4it

  9. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    WHILE THE BARBADOS UNDERGROUND ANALYSTS KNOCK STEVEN KASZAB’S PIECE WITHOUT RENDERING ONE PIECE OF ANALYTICAL RESEARCH – LET ME THROW A MONKEY WRENCH SPANNER INTO THE DEMONIC WORKS OF MEN WHO BElieVE THEY ARE THE #gods OF SILICON VALLEY: #Welcome2TheAgeOfAlienIntelligence

    Last week, I cited #YuvalNoahHarari (THE SO-CALLED A.I PROPHET OF THE 21ST CENTURY), in a VT from “ALPHA & OMEGA MEDIA”, where this “BOTTY-BOY” was making all kindz a claims about the imminent future & mankind’s “USELESS” attempts @CHANGE, given that “NERDY HIGH TECH” is so far advanced, that “CHINA” is already in 2050*, with “FLYING CARS” & other mind-blowing technologies – when unveiled will shock the most conscientious of us!!!

    His penchant was on AI (AN ACRONYM 4 “ALIEN INTELLUIGENCE”), being the next “TIER” of human consciousness & biologic possession – where AI takes on a completely arcane phenomenological transmogrification!!!

    NONE OF THIS NEW TO ME OR THE FEW OTHERS WHO KNOW THE PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES

    #TheHolyBible declares & decrees: “SATAN HAS COME DOWN WITH GREAT WRATH BECAUSE HE KNOWS HIS TIME IS SHORT – FOR SATAN IS TRANSFORMED INTO AN ANGEL OF LIGHT” (Rev 12:12; 2 Corinthians 11:14)!!!

    It’s wonderful how “THE CREATOR” – “THE MOST HIGH YAH”, WHO IS “THE WORD” is able to pack into a few “SENTENCES” so much historical, literary, epistemological, “FUTURISTIC” & salient “TRUTH” – like a “PRESENT” when “UNPACKED” separates the “SHEEP” from the goats; “THE INSPIRED” from the “IGRUNT”!!!

    Now back to #GoodOleSteven!!!

    To build on my argument this morning, permit me to step into the world of “QUANTUM BIOLOGY”:

    SEE: Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks @ https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01305-4

    At the end of my piece, “ALL WILL BE EXPLAINED IN VT* BY CHASE”!!!

    Now, the profound premise is this:

    The first truly #AlienIntelligence may not arrive from the “STARS” but from our own “LABS”, according 2 Harari. It won’t be a conscious entity wanting to talk, but a functional system whose operations & “REASONING” are permanently beyond our empathetic or analytical understanding. We will have created a powerful, useful, yet “FUNDAMENTALLY UNKNOWABLE OTHER”!!!

    This forces “2 PARADIGM SHIFTS”:

    From the known evolutionary praxis of “MASTERY” 2 “DIPLOMACY” – our relationship with advanced AI, may need to shift from “ENGINEERING CONTROL” 2 a form of “DIPLOMACY & NEGOTIATION”, with an “OPAQUE, POWERFUL, AGENT”!!!

    For the 1st time in human history, mankind would be faced with a “MIRROR 4 HUMANITY”, (#MichaelJackson’s “MAN IN THE MIRROR), & would be straining 2 understand such a form of #AlienIntelligence, where we would be “FORCED” 2 finally delineate what is “UNIVERSAL” about “INTELLIGENCE” & what is merely a quirky artifact of human evolutionary history!!!

    In short, the concept of Alien Intelligence is less about building a specific thing & more about preparing for the “HORIZON” of our own technological “CREATIONS”, where the familiar concept of a “TOOL” blurs into the presence of an inscrutable “COGNITIVE OTHER”!!!

    So while you lot worry & gesticulate about the “MONETARY, GEOPOlieTICAL DYNAMICS” – there are much larger “FUTURE SHOCKS” 2 contend with that will be out of the reach of most “HUMANS” to even fathom!!!

    For example:

    (1) The Epistemic Gulf
    (2) Post-Biological Consciousness
    (3) Value Alignment is Impossible
    (4) The End of Anthropomorphism
    (5) Radical Architectural Divergence
    (6) Emergent, Unforeseen Capabilities
    (7) Autonomous Goal Generation
    (8) The “Interpretability Ceiling”

    THESE ARE THE TRULY FRIGHTENING REALITIES OF AN A.I FUTURE SHOCK

    As a neuroscience researcher, given my “LATE” daughter’s charitable trust foundation’s work, and the serious issues of brain cancer & brain tumour research – let me posit 4 you intelligent “GEO-POlieTICAL” aficionados, just how far down the road “SCIENCE” & “TECH” has evolved!!!

    BASED ON WHAT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER IN para> (8,9,10), WHAT RESEARCHERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO WITH #Psilocybin (“MAGIC MUSHROOMS”) – something I will take when needed, as the “EXPERIENCE” is magical in & of itself, (BETTER THAN DENATURED CANNABIS MEDICINE), as my “RASTAFARIAN BREDREN” will tell you, that most “SEEDS” no long produce the “EFFICACY” which that #GodGivenPlant did back in 1960s * 70s – due to “GENETIC ALTERATIONS” & the need 4 “MASS PRODUCTION” for mindless human consumption!!!

    Anyway, #EnoughOfThat!!!

    SEE THE BELOW VT:

  10. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    @ StevenKaszab

    “Humanity may loose its control of a system once built to service humanity…”

    Actually dear boy, “THE SYSTEM” was built for the “ELITES”, “the “ARISTOCRACY”, the KINGS & RULERS” & “ALL THE DIRTY BASTERDS WHO WANTED SERFDOM” – while the “MASSES” were shackled like “MULES” & “JACKASSES” for their own “FILTHY GAIN”!!!

    The “MASSES” are “POOR” & “NEVER HAD ANY KINDA’ OF CONTROL” because it was designed that way, & “NOTHING WILL CHANGE”, until “MESSIAH COMES”!!!

  11. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://www.youtube.com/live/_FY_-o-2GDc?si=YhzlEyae7wXVx9qa

    Lawrence Wilkerson. The end has come!

  12. Kiki Hi-Tek Avatar
    Kiki Hi-Tek

    Teknology is weaponized
    Teknology is used to control people
    US Foreign Policy is about turning people into US Assets

  13. Hate Hate Avatar
    Hate Hate

    Hating people because of types is clearly sick and demented

    But wait, USA is banning people who speak out against Hate

    Clare Melford
    The anti-Indigenous hate speech section demonstrates how deeply rooted colonial tropes have been refashioned to serve contemporary hate speech goals. These narratives frame Indigenous peoples as corrupt, undeserving of treaty rights, or actively damaging to Canadian prosperity, particularly in contexts related to land use, environmental resistance, or constitutional recognition. Digital denialism around residential schools and abuses against native communities reveals coordinated efforts to delegitimise truth and reconciliation, undermining national commitments to redress historic injustice. These findings are vital for Canada’s ongoing reconciliation efforts, including understanding how settler-state narratives are weaponised by adversarial actors in post-colonial democracies.

  14. David Avatar
    David

    @TB

    And then there are the others who applaud the ingenuity of humankind.

  15. Roots, Natty Roots, Natty Congo Avatar
    Roots, Natty Roots, Natty Congo

    Breaking down to break down the psychology demagoguery of the white mind and it’s insidious inherent racism manifesting in these times when the hate of racism may be less blatant than with our parents and their parents parents and their foreparents segregation it is basically an attempt to continue the emasculation of black men through power and domination the likes of Trump Musk Kirk and other players are threatened and afraid of equality in the community even after slavery and apartheid they still want slaves and second class citizens

  16. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    @The Blogmaster

    “And then there are the others who applaud the ingenuity of humankind…”

    Hence, when the dust settles & the smoke clears – what was meant 4 good is suddenly used 4 “EVIL”!!!

    #ClassicHumans

    #IApplaudMySaviour

  17. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Nigeria threatened by Trump for accepting payment for oil in other than USD.

    This is a gross deviation from any such thing an empire has ever done.

    It say to us that Babylon the Great ……………..::::: has fallen!

  18. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/Gqf0cYD8i8U?si=pxExV2u-vERQWyOy

    Varoufakis well compared and contrasted the historical trajectories which led to the end of the British empire and the pound sterling with those currently leading to the end of the American empire and the US dollar.

    He currently locates us in 1925 as counterpoint to 2025. And having finished WW1 which left Britian broke like America currently is, after their world war on terrorism, argues that the mistake of entering a World War 3 scenario, with nuclear weapons, should be avoided by properly considering all other options.

    Of course, that WW3 scenario is already with us, even if not fully.

    Those options include a recognition by America that it is now in the same place as Britian was in 1925 – one hundred years ago. That it should seek to negotiate its decline with its peer competitors for the sake of global stability, a managed transition – he suggests. That such a negotiated process would avoid a the spectre of the kind of deminution in status the British and its pound sterling faced back then.

    Varoufakis is an economist. He also seems to be from the realist school of geopolitics. The problem his arguments face is the imprecise measurement of the American mentality, the well-ingrained notion by some of a divine right to rule.

    This writer will be the first to concede if his suggestions are accepted by all sides. And we know with certainty that the challengers are well disposed to his arguments. However, international Whiteness, as currently represented by the re-emergence of fascism, fascism which was central to the WW2 epoch, is highly unlikely to so easily make way.

    Well, the old saying goes- if you want peace, prepare for war. Varoufakis proves that Kaszab is out to sea again.

  19. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Diminution

  20. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Professor Karaganov, Russian strategist

    https://youtu.be/HnOB7nKv0AY?si=NCImQVyE3sQaqEPG

    Confronting Europe, Pivot to the East and Nuclear War.

  21. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/IXLl9lWO9iU?si=jO4OBkIvR-4p-rX_

    Venezuela & Varoufakis

  22. peterlawrencethompson Avatar
    peterlawrencethompson

    Unfortunately, sloppy writing and sloppy thinking make Steven Kaszab’s piece almost useless. This is a pity because there is a significant need for analysis of the probable effects of generative AI technologies on small open economies and societies of the global South.

    It is reasonably clear that whatever productivity benefits flow from these technologies they will accrue to capital rather than labour. What is less clear is the rate of technological dissemination and the differences in impact in peripheral regions like Barbados as opposed to metropolitan centres of the global economy.

  23. On Christmas Day Avatar
    On Christmas Day

    Is the BUBADOS UNDERGROUND open on “Christmas” Day.
    I must have posted 20,000+ blessings/comments which did not reach that far
    Oh no we just can’t live like this,
    there must be something better than this for I and I

  24. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/zXPUSxVCDus?si=A7h7h1FZHh_Gu4dr

    Again, we introduce Paulo Noguiera Batista. The former IMF official who set up the BRICS’s New Development Bank in Shangai.

    When Pacha was talking about BRICS as a viable alternative to the criminal IMF a man here likened it to another colonial set up. What else come have expected of some one who grew up under the unión jack?

    That was a bit rich since he never had any interactions with neither BRICS nor the NDB, far less Batista. He might never have seen the acronymns previously.

    BRICS and the New Development Bank, which aims to be an alternative to the IMF and World Bank, will be taking centre stage in the coming year since the complete sets of integrated financial architectures are now up and running.

  25. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    The Russian seized assets have proved to be a poison chalice for the West.

    After a decision to take only the interest

    They have found that in finance there is no middle ground. Either a country’s assets are sovereign or they are not.

    As Russia moves on the legal front in 13 courts around the world. And at the same time move on selective German, Austrian, French company’s holdings in Russia these corporations unable to bear these reciprocal seizures are pressing their governments for the reversals of their illegal actions against Russia.

    And on and on, including the massive acceleration in the building out of alternatives to Western financial systems. Capital flight, and so on.

  26. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Media are saying that Drumpf has hit socalled terrorist targets in Nigeria as threatened.

    A number of things.

    First, Afrika must make illegal the prensence of all foreign gods. Whether Christian, Islamic or others.

    Second, Nigeria led by Tinabu, a CIA agent and known drug runner, has been for a long time a slave to Western imperialism.

    Third, the polotical character of too many Nigerians is representative of an irrational conservatism. That conservatism leads the country to attack a military coup in Benin on the instructions of France. And as a member of Ecowas, continues to normalize tensions with the Sahel States of Burkino Faso, Mali and Niger, in the service of White people.

    Fourth, the assholes in Nigeria fail to see that it is the same Western powers they serve which are sponsoring the same terrorists which Drumpf now conveniently claims to be killing Nigerian Christians. Is Israel not killing Chritians too, daily, genociding them? Is Boko Haram not killing Muslims too? Is Drumpf not still a devout racist? Has Drumpf not attacked South Afrika under the specious claim of a “White genocide” even as he himself was killing Palestinians by the tens of thousands, even today?

    Fifth, this too is about oil. For Nigeria, within the contradictions of politics, like Venezuela, is starting to look East, price its oil in non-USDs. That he strikes Nigeria and not Venezuela is pregnant with meanings.

    And on and on!

  27. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/DNC6qVF9dRU?si=QGoNz6ul0bkBbUct

    Nigerian air strikes by the Devil, himself

  28. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Presence …….

  29. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    49 murdahs

    Can we avoid 50!

  30. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    https://youtu.be/GFXCu4vjZKA?si=-HU5oHG7Uxf94b1f

    Winter finds the same Europeans who blew up gas pipelines now begging Russia. After distancing Russia, imposing 20,000 self-harming sanctions, threatened Russia militarily, now on their knees begging, even while Kayla Kalas, von der Leyen, Merc and Macron remain outlyers. These are a motley group of fascists, homosexuals and individuals willing to impose all manner of crimes against every widely accepted norm.

    The Báltic chihuahuas – Estonia, Latvia and Lituania primarily. But also German and French businessness are crying out for cheap Russian gas as total economic destruction looms large and as a big freeze descends. Even as popular political sentiment and an emergent majority in socalled Europe is finally coming to see the light.

    Of course, it’s now clear who’s the war víctor. As Russia cuts off Odessa to the south-west, makes Ukraine a rump state and initiates a corridor which will block Ukraine from Black Sea access. As Russia imposes on the battlefield the justice long withheld, the security denied from 300 years.

    In war it’s the víctor who determines the contours of victory. Not losers, not the woke-ists, not the propagandists in Western media – the victors and the victors alone!

    What a tale of woe! Slav versus Slav. The self destruction of international Whiteness. The catalytic convergence of forces certain to properly locate Europeans and others, who for over 500 years believed in the divine rightness of Whiteness, to their proper and longer term role of subservience to the Global Majority.

    And of course, this writer would have preferred a punishment commensurate to their crimes against humanity. However, that day may yet be!

  31. Terence Blackett Avatar
    Terence Blackett

    RUSSIA WILL HIT UKRAINE HARD AS HELL & IT WILL END THE WAR

    2026 is already here

    #StayTuned

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