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Moats vs. Inertia: Unpacking the Personal AI Agent Threat

Meta’s September launch of Muse, a personal artificial intelligence (AI) agent designed to act on a user’s behalf across digital workflows, crystallized the market’s latest disruption narrative. If AI can make consumer switching easier, which business models are truly protected by moats and which are merely monetizing friction? While we

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Weekly Bottom Line

Evidence of building price pressures was everywhere this week. Headline and core CPI inflation accelerated to 3.7% and 2.6%, respectively, while NFIB, Beige Book and producer-price data also pointed to building pressures. Gas prices helped lift retail sales 0.8% in September. Under the surface though, gains were broad-based and healthy

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