Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd on the stock market:
"If 45% of your market cap is AI and there's no profits yet, what are you investing in?"
"You're investing in future hopium"
"Bain... said there is no ROI, it's a bust"
"the markets can continue to be irrational and go up on this, but the narrative is changing fast"
This clip of Dowd (
@DowdEdward), a former BlackRock fund manager and co-founder of Phinance Technologies, is taken from a discussion with Jesse Day (
@jessebday) posted to the Commodity Culture YouTube channel on June 2, 2026.