{"id":305717,"date":"2026-02-28T01:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305717\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:06:06","slug":"opinion-wall-streets-ai-stock-panic-separating-fear-from-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305717\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Wall Street\u2019s AI stock panic: Separating fear from reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"CELHL3KRLVDB3DQAARWUOZWNLM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Zachary Karabell is an author and investor and writes \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/edgyoptimist.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Edgy Optimist<\/a>\u201d on Substack.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MQPUPCV35BED5MSKJNP6EGVVVE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The first two months of the year have seen static stock markets following anemic economic growth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/02\/20\/gdp-2025-economy-tariffs-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the final months of 2025<\/a>. But in the past few weeks, the dominant theme in finance land has been fear. That isn\u2019t unusual. Wall Street often oscillates between hope and fear, euphoria and despair. What\u2019s new is the source of that fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zachary Karabell is an author and investor and writes \u201cThe Edgy Optimist\u201d on Substack. The first two months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,163625,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-305717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-partner-exclude","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}