An Economy Built on Speculation—for Better and for Worse

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  Borders love buzzwords.

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  AI, climate, resilience.

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  But what do they actually mean for CFOs and execs trying to survive the next earnings call?

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  Either this is a bubble or I'm going to be a trillionaire.

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  Like there's no two ways about it.

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  Imagine if one day,

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  your side hobby suddenly became something that people started spending millions of dollars on.

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  That's basically what happened to Mike Winkelman.

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  And it was just like, wait, what?

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  People are paying, collecting JPEGs?

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  Paying money for JPEGs?

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  Like...

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  Winkelman is a 44-year-old father of two, originally from Wisconsin.

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  He started making digital art in 1999, when he was a freshman in college.

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  long before something called an NFT existed.

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  The JPEG files he made on his computer were never something he thought would make him rich.

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  Was it something that you thought you would make a living on?

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