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May 17, 2026
Good morning! Today is Sunday, May 17th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Kevin Warsh takes the Fed chair with an inflation problem that won't quit and a president who wants cheap credit, and David Brady warns the easy-money path is inflating an AI bubble that could end in taxpayer-funded bailouts. At a Florida commencement, students jeered an executive who hailed AI as the next Industrial Revolution, a moment Spencer Neale reads as the most AI-saturated generation signaling it does not want the future being sold to it. Peter Tonguette visits Washington's National…
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