{"id":73618,"date":"2025-10-11T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73618\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:02:09","slug":"richard-curran-get-ready-for-the-big-bang-its-no-longer-a-matter-of-if-but-when-markets-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73618\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Curran: Get ready for the big bang \u2013 it\u2019s no longer a matter of if, but when markets melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It\u2019s hard to ignore the feeling that disaster looms as the AI bubble grows and the bets \u2018shadow bankers\u2019 are making look increasingly shaky\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Investment is flooding into AI, with no clear understanding of how the technology will perform in terms of profitability. Stock image\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bd6d5b63-2a14-4159-ae20-f80b0da4f9b9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Investment is flooding into AI, with no clear understanding of how the technology will perform in terms of profitability. Stock image\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Big Bang came at the birth of the universe, but in the world of business it always comes at the end of a massive boom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Paschal Donohoe\u2019s budget this week was framed against a backdrop of unprecedented levels of cash in the Exchequer at home, and also unprecedented risk and uncertainty around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s hard to ignore the feeling that disaster looms as the AI bubble grows and the bets \u2018shadow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,3468,218,2334,219,5244,969,61,60,3916,1682,774,5914,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-73618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-budget-2026","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jeff-bezos","18":"tag-openai","19":"tag-paschal-donohoe","20":"tag-richard-curran","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}